Evidence

Roderick Munday is a Reader Emeritus in Law at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow Emeritus at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Along with Evidence, he is also the author of Cross and Tapper on Evidence (OUP: 2018) and Agency: Law and Principles (OUP: 2016) as well as a co-author of Commercial Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (OUP: 2020).

• 1: Relevance and admissibility of evidence 2: Presumptions and the burden of proof 3: Witnesses: competence, compellability, and various privileges 4: The course of the trial 5: Witnesses' previous consistent statements and the remnants of the rule against narrative 6: Character and credibility 7: Evidence of the defendant's good character in criminal cases 8: Evidence of the defendant's bad character 9: The opinion rule and the presentation of expert evidence 10: The rule against hearsay 11: Confessions 12: Drawing adverse inferences from a defendant's omissions, lies, or false alibis 13: Identification evidence

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