Exclusionary Rules in Comparative Law

✍ Scribed by Mark E. Cammack (auth.), Stephen C. Thaman (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 461
• Series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice 20
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a comparative study of the exclusion of illegally gathered evidence in the criminal trial , which includes 15 country studies, a chapter on the European Court of Human Rights, and a comparative synthetic conclusion. No other book has undertaken such a broad comparative study of exclusionary rules, which have now become a world-wide phenomenon. The topic is one of the most controversial in criminal procedure law, because it reveals a constant tension between the criminal court’s duty to ascertain the truth, on the one hand, and its duty to uphold important constitutional rights on the other, most importantly, the privilege against self-incrimination and the right to privacy in one's home and one's private communications.

The chapters were contributed by noted world experts on the subject for the XVIII Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law in Washington in July 2010.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The United States: The Rise and Fall of the Constitutional Exclusionary Rule....Pages 3-32
Ireland: A Move to Categorical Exclusion?....Pages 33-68
Scotland: A Plea for Consistency....Pages 69-91
Israel: The Supreme Court’s New, Cautious Exclusionary Rule....Pages 93-111
Germany: Balancing Truth Against Protected Constitutional Interests....Pages 113-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
France: Procedural Nullities and Exclusion....Pages 145-160
Belgium: From Categorical Nullities to a Judicially Created Balancing Test....Pages 161-182
The Netherlands: Statutory Balancing and a Choice of Remedies....Pages 183-207
Spain: The Constitutional Court’s Move from Categorical Exclusion to Limited Balancing....Pages 209-234
Italy: Statutory Nullities and Non-usability....Pages 235-259
Greece: From Statutory Nullities to a Categorical Statutory Exclusionary Rule....Pages 261-286
Turkey: The Move to Categorical Exclusion of Illegally Gathered Evidence....Pages 287-308
Serbia: Courts Struggle with a New Categorical Statutory Exclusionary Rule....Pages 309-328
Front Matter....Pages 329-329
England and Wales: Fair Trial Analysis and the Presumed Admissibility of Physical Evidence....Pages 331-354
Taiwan: The Codification of a Judicially-Made Discretionary Exclusionary Rule....Pages 355-369
The European Court of Human Rights: The Fair Trial Analysis Under Article 6 of the European Convention of Human Rights....Pages 371-399
Front Matter....Pages 401-401
Balancing Truth Against Human Rights: A Theory of Modern Exclusionary Rules....Pages 403-446
Back Matter....Pages 447-454

✦ Subjects

Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law; Criminal Law; Public International Law