Australian Uniform Evidence Law

Fiona Hum is a Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Monash University, teaching Evidence law for over 20 years, an Advance HEA Fellow and Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Fiona is a solicitor and barrister of the Supreme Court of Victoria, practising for many years prior to academia. Her research interests include Evidence law, wrongful convictions, discrimination and injustice issues. Ottavio Quirico is Professor at the University of New England Law School. He has been, inter alia, a Research Fellow at the Centre for European Studies of the Australian National University, Perugia University for Foreigners and European University Institute, as well as a Marie Curie Fellow at Université Panthéon-Assas. Brendon Murphy is a law scholar with research interests in criminal law, sociolegal theory, power and knowledge formations. He has held positions at the University of Newcastle, the University of the Sunshine Coast, the University of Canberra and the Australian Catholic University.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Adducing evidence; 3. Relevance; 4. Hearsay; 5. Opinion; 6. Admissions; 7. Tendency and coincidence; 8. Credibility; 9. Character; 10. Identification evidence; 11. Privileges; 12. Discretionary and mandatory exclusions; 13. Facilitation of proof and ancillary matters; 14. Putting it all together: extended practice problems.

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