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The article offers information on the notices sent to Rosemary Pattenden, School of Law, University of East Anglia, Norwich. It mentions that the notices sent were regarding the fitness and unfitness in pleading the law reforms, access to family law justice in Canada and release of question papers of criminal appeals by New South Wales.

The article discusses the court case procedure related to the issue of spousal testimonial privilege in Australia. It mentions Australian Crime Commission (ACC) which is responsible on compelling witnesses on bringing witnesses appear before court for questions and answers. It highlights the case of an accountant on taking advantages of the law privilege which allows her to disclose any answers which may expose her husband responsible for crime.

The article reflects on modified ruled for the suppression of eyewitness identification evidence. It refers to a court case Bielecki v DPP in which the defendant did not comply and was prosecuted under the Great Britain Road Traffic Act 1988 for failing to supply specimens of breath. It suggests that under modified rules, the court could exclude distorted statements regarding the witness's level of confidence about the identification.

In this article the author discusses various court cases in several countries including Australia, India, and Canada. She cites the sexual offences charged to a psychiatrist by his former receptionist and patients. The author mentions that the post-offence evidence is an evidence based on the defendant's action following the offence.

The article presents several notices related to law commissions in several countries including England, India, and Australia. It mentions that the law commission in England and Wales have set out measures that courts can use in reducing evidences used in criminal trials. It states that the government in Northern Territory is suggesting to enact a new evidence law that will Uniform Evidence Act as a basis.

In this article, the author discusses several administrative procedures. She cites the issue of juror exposure to inappropriate Internet material and newspapers frequently report juror abuse of digital technology. She discusses the case over the complain of the admission at the trial of evidence of bad character and the failure of the trial judge to give the jury a good character direction. She raises concerns over the case that a prosecution witness is hostile to the prosecution.

The article focuses on the suspect's right to counsel and obtain legal advice during police detention in Great Britain and Canada. It notes that as both the British and the Canadian supreme court recognize a detained suspect's right to a legal advice before being interviewed by the police, they have different approach. It tells that while British court treated the right as bound up with the right to silence, Canadian court treated it as simply as a way to ensure the interview is an informed one.

The article offers information on several court cases from different countries. It states that in England and Wales, there were alleged irregularities in the juries of several cases including Thompson, Crawford and Gomulu. It discusses the acceptability of evidence obtained through methods that are not allowed under Article three of the European Court of Human Rights. Furthermore, it presents an analysis of the right to silence in the U.S. that was mentioned in the Fifth Amendment.

In this article the author discusses several court cases. He is critical of the decisions of the European Courts of human Rights on the assessment of the credibility of an asylum seeker alleging past torture. The article also discusses the consequences of violating the prosecution's disclosure obligation according to the rulings of the Great Britain's courts.

The article offers information on legal developments around the world. A consultation paper supporting relaxation of the double jeopardy rule in exceptional circumstances has been published by the Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong. Law Commission of the Northern Ireland has published a consultation paper seeking views on whether special protection should be made available for vulnerable witnesses who must testify in civil proceedings.

Section 58 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 confers on all suspects held in police custody a right to consult a solicitor in private. The free legal advice which suspects arrested for certain minor offences can request is restricted to telephone advice from a call-centre operated by CDS Direct. It is lawful for the Legal Services Commission to restrict the delivery of legal advice in this way. Empirical research, however, reveals that there are police stations that lack the facilities for suspects to speak by telephone with legal advisers secure in the knowledge that what is said will not be overheard. It is unlawful and incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights to expect suspects to speak by telephone to a legal adviser under such conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the author discusses the responsibility and importance of jury members as witness. The author mentions that in order to have a fair trail, the legal system of any country must not rule out the possibility of testifying a jury member. The author mentions that according to the U.S. constitution, the judge of the case has the power to decide whether an inquiry against the jury member is required or not.

In this article, the author discusses the presentations of evidences to different cases tried in several countries including Scotland, New Zealand and Canada. The author provides information on the backgrounds of cases with respect to the nature of evidences used including HM Advocate v. Murtagh, the murder case R. v. Bain and R. v. Gwaze, a case of sexual violation. She also says that the reliability of using fingerprints as evidence was scrutinized in United States v. Baines.

The article reports on events and changes related to the judicial system of several countries including Australia, Canada and Great Britain. It states that Victoria and New South Wales released publications that recommend changes to the complex trial system of Australia on criminal cases. It adds that the Law Society published reports regarding evidence presentation in England and the European Union (EU). Moreover, it offers information on the Coroners and Justice Act of 2009 of Great Britain.

In this article, the author discusses court cases in several countries including Great Britain, Australia and the U.S. She reports about the case in Great Britain, where one of the juror refused to return to the court and the depleted jury was discharged during the deliberations. She comments on the case where defender was accused of sexually offending a child in Australia. She discusses the case in the U.S. where the defendant was charged with murder and had accepted the crime.

The article presents the author's views on several court cases related to legal evidence. The author says that in Al-Khawaja and Tahery v. United Kingdom, Application No. 26766/05, which Great Britain lost, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) reduced the generous margin of appreciation by deciding that in criminal trials the rule against hearsay is a fundamental human right which cannot be modified by domestic legislation.

The article presents the author's views on several court cases. According to the author, in cases concerning mixed statements, the jury should not convict unless satisfied that every element of the offence has been proved. The author opines that in the lawsuit Ludlow v. DPP, there was no means by which unfairness caused due to the destruction of evidence could be mitigated by the judge. The lawsuit involved an accident in which the tyres of the lorry, the sources of evidence, were destroyed.

In criminal trials with a jury, judges have many opportunities to engage in adjudicative fact-finding before the jury retires. English law has no conceptual framework for examining this judicial fact-finding which encompasses two categories of collateral fact (preliminary and underlying fact) and foreign law. A third category of collateral fact (conditional fact) is decided by the jury. The article examines the nature of judicial fact-finding and the history and rationale for this allocation of fact-finding responsibility between judge and jury. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on the case Gäfgen v Germany. It is stated that the decision made by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in this case about the admissibility of evidence tainted by a violation of Article 3 is important. Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights prohibits torture and inhuman or degrading treatment in absolute terms. The case involved the use of forensic evidence to verify the in-court confessions.

This article explores the true nature of authentication of tangible evidence in English law and kindred jurisdictions. It first identifies general principles governing the respective roles of judge and jury in the authentication of tangible evidence embedded within the case law of England and Wales. Those principles are then compared and contrasted to the rules governing authentication of evidence under the US Federal Rules of Evidence. Finally, general principles of authentication in English law are examined in relation to the authentication of forensic science evidence; film, video, photographs and sound recordings; private documents; computer output; and recorded confessions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is about the admissibility in criminal proceedings of evidence which is directly or indirectly the product of torture or ill-treatment of a third party who is not available to give oral evidence. The focus is the consistency between public international law, particularly the little-studied Article 15 of the United Nations Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment (UNCAT), and English domestic law in the immediate aftermath of the Court of Appeal’s decision in A v Secretary of State for the Home Department (No. 2). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on various notices on law reform including the DNA Identification Act in Canada, jury selection in Queensland, and the unfitness to plead in Great Britain.

The article presents several notices including the proposed extension of the age limit for jury service in Hong Kong, the interview conducted with people who became witnesses in criminal proceedings, and the justice system in Great Britain which undermines the ability of adults and children.

The article discusses notices related to legal proceedings from across the world. The New Zealand Criminal Justice Act 1985, subsection 138-141, has authorized the court to ban public interference and limit publication of information in criminal cases. The Irish Law Reform Commission has released a publication paper related to the confirmation of electronic and documentary testimony in both civil and criminal proceedings and electronic recording of police interviews introduced in the U.S.

The article offers information about the documents, papers and reports related to law. The report titled "Criminal Jury Trials: Challenges for Cause Procedures," discusses the final policy positions of the criminal rules in Canada. The paper "Keeping the Right People on the DNA Database," published in Great Britain, reports the benefits of DNA and fingerprints in bringing out justice against the criminals. A consultation paper from Australia, "Model Spent Convictions Bill," is also presented.

A list of publications and information resources related to criminal law is presented.