Fairness in criminal justice : golden threads and pragmatic patches /

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Author / Creator:Elias, Sian, author.
Imprint:Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
©2018
Description:xviii, 168 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:The Hamlyn lectures ; 2016
Hamlyn lectures ; 2016.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11796477
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Other authors / contributors:University of Exeter. School of Law, sponsoring body.
ISBN:9781108474351
1108474357
9781108463157
1108463150
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"British criminal justice is a principal legacy of empire in the common law world. It attempts fairness between prosecutors and accused in an accusatory system for establishing criminal responsibility supervised by a judge who is conspicuously detached from the fray. Fundamental features, today recognised as human rights, include the presumption of innocence and onus of proof, the privilege against self-incrimination, and the right to legal advice and representation...[The author] examines modern challenges to this conception of criminal justice prompted by anxiety about crime and the costs and delays in proof of guilt. They include enlarged prosecutorial discretion in charging, incentivisation of early guilty pleas, adoption of reverse onuses of proof, application to criminal proceedings of principles of modern civil case management, and measures to bring the victim into the criminal justice system. The lectures question whether this repositioning risks the integrity of the system."--

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