Obstacles to Fairness in Criminal Proceedings: Individual Rights and Institutional Forms

Author:   Professor John D Jackson ,  Professor Sarah J Summers
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781509940233


Pages:   344
Publication Date:   23 July 2020
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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.

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Author:   Professor John D Jackson ,  Professor Sarah J Summers
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Hart Publishing
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781509940233


ISBN 10:   1509940235
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   23 July 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction John D Jackson and Sarah J Summers 2. The Character of the Right to a Fair Trial Stefan Trechsel 3. Autonomy and Agency in American Criminal Process David Alan Sklansky 4. Innocence, the Burden of Proof and Fairness in the Criminal Trial: Revisiting Woolmington v DPP (1935) Lindsay Farmer 5. The Right of Silence in England and Wales: Sacred Cow, Sacrifi cial Lamb or Trojan Horse? Hannah Quirk 6. Seeking Core Fair Trial Standards across National Boundaries: Judicial Impartiality, the Prosecutorial Role and the Right to Counsel John D Jackson and Sarah J Summers 7. The Role of Counsel in Criminal Proceedings 7 Wolfgang Wohlers 8. ‘Falling on Deaf Ears’: Looking for the Salduz Jurisprudence in Greece Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos 9. Fairness and Expediency in International Criminal Procedure Kai Ambos 10. International Criminal Procedure and the False Promise of an Ideal Model of Fairness Yvonne McDermott 11. Written Records of Statements and Fairness Nadja Capus 12. Regulating and Limiting Plea Concessions: Towards Fairness in Charge Adjudication Richard L Lippke 13. A Fair Cop and a Fair Trial Eric J Miller 14. Rights-Analysis in Addressing Pre-Trial Impropriety: An Obstacle to Fairness Kelly M Pitcher 15. Fairness in Criminal Proceedings: Concluding Thoughts and Further Questions RA Duff

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John D Jackson is Professor of Comparative Criminal Law and Procedure, School of Law, University of Nottingham. Sarah J Summers is Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Zurich.

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