I'm delighted to announce
that Routledge has just published Andrea
Ryan (University of Limerick)'s Towards a System of European Criminal Justice: The
Problem of Admissibility of Evidence (2014):
With the developing landscape of a European
criminal justice sphere comes an increasing imperative for scholars and
practitioners to gain some insight into the diversity that exists in the
criminal justice systems of European Union Member States.
This book
explores the mutual admissibility of evidence; a facet of EU criminal justice
that is proving difficult to realise. While the Lisbon Treaty places the issue
of mutual admissibility of evidence squarely on the agenda, the EU instruments
to date have not succeeded in achieving this goal. Andrea Ryan argues that part
of the reason for this failure is that while the mutual recognition instruments
have focussed on the issue of gathering evidence and safeguarding suspects’
rights, they have not addressed how evidence is to be presented and contested
at trial.
Drawing upon
case studies from Ireland, France and Italy, and adopting a legal cultural
perspective, and enriched by the author’s observations of criminal trials, the
book presents a detailed analysis of the developments to date in EU criminal
justice and evidence law. By examining evidence practices the book asks whether
the inquisitorial and accusatorial traditions within the EU systems are too
irreconcilable to achieve a system of mutual admissibility of evidence.
The book
will be of great interest and use to academics and practitioners with an
interest in European and comparative criminal justice, criminal procedure,
human rights and socio-legal studies.
Recommended. SPD
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