Obstacles to Fairness in Criminal Proceedings

Individual Rights and Institutional Forms

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

AvJohn D Jackson,Sarah J Summers,John D. Jackson,Sarah J. Summers

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This volume considers the way in which the focus on individual rights may constitute an obstacle to ensuring fairness in criminal proceedings. The increasingly cosmopolitan nature of criminal justice, forcing legal systems with different institutional forms and practices to interact with each other as they attempt to combat crime beyond national borders, has accentuated the need for systems to seek legitimacy beyond their domestic traditions. Fairness, expressed in terms of the right to a fair trial in provisions such as Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, has emerged across Europe as the principal means of guaranteeing the legitimacy of criminal proceedings. The consequence of this is that criminal procedure doctrines are framed overwhelmingly in 'constitutional' terms – the protection of defence rights is necessary to restrict and legitimate the state's mandate to prosecute crime. Yet there are various problems with relying solely or predominantly on defence rights as a means of ensuring that proceedings are 'fair' or legitimate and these issues are rarely discussed in the academic literature. In this volume, scholars from the disciplines of law, philosophy and sociology challenge various normative assumptions underpinning our understanding of fairness in criminal proceedings.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-03-22
Mått169 x 244 x undefined mm
Vikt744 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor344
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781782258353

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1. Introduction John D Jackson and Sarah J Summers2. The Character of the Right to a Fair Trial Stefan Trechsel3. Autonomy and Agency in American Criminal Process David Alan Sklansky4. Innocence, the Burden of Proof and Fairness in the Criminal Trial: Revisiting Woolmington v DPP (1935) Lindsay Farmer5. The Right of Silence in England and Wales: Sacred Cow, Sacrifi cial Lamb or Trojan Horse? Hannah Quirk6. Seeking Core Fair Trial Standards across National Boundaries: Judicial Impartiality, the Prosecutorial Role and the Right to Counsel John D Jackson and Sarah J Summers7. The Role of Counsel in Criminal Proceedings 7Wolfgang Wohlers8. ‘Falling on Deaf Ears’: Looking for the Salduz Jurisprudence in Greece Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos9. Fairness and Expediency in International Criminal Procedure Kai Ambos10. International Criminal Procedure and the False Promise of an Ideal Model of Fairness Yvonne McDermott11. Written Records of Statements and Fairness Nadja Capus12. Regulating and Limiting Plea Concessions: Towards Fairness in Charge AdjudicationRichard L Lippke13. A Fair Cop and a Fair Trial Eric J Miller14. Rights-Analysis in Addressing Pre-Trial Impropriety: An Obstacle to FairnessKelly M Pitcher15. Fairness in Criminal Proceedings: Concluding Thoughts and Further Questions RA Duff