Rethinking Evidence: Exploratory Essays (Law in Context)

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The Law of Evidence has traditionally been perceived as a dry, highly technical, and mysterious subject. This book argues that problems of evidence in law are closely related to the handling of evidence in other kinds of practical decision-making and other academic disciplines, that it is closely related to common sense and that it is an interesting, lively and accessible subject. These essays develop a readable, coherent historical and theoretical perspective about problems of proof, evidence, and inferential reasoning in law. Although each essay is self-standing, they are woven together to present a sustained argument for a broad inter-disciplinary approach to evidence in litigation, in which the rules of evidence play a subordinate, though significant, role. This revised and enlarged edition includes a revised introduction, the best-known essays in the first edition, and new chapters on narrative and argumentation, teaching evidence, and evidence as a multi-disciplinary subject.

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Analysis of Evidence (Law in Context)
Terence Anderson , David Schum , and William Twining
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ASIN: 052167316X

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This extensively revised second edition covers the basic concepts and principles underlying the logic of proof; the uses and dangers of story-telling; probabilities and proof; the chart method and other methods of analyzing and ordering evidence. They are utilized in fact-investigation, preparing for trial, and in connection with other important decisions in legal processes and criminal investigation and intelligence analysis. Most of the chapters in the new edition have been rewritten; the treatment of fact investigation, probabilities and narrative has been extended; and new examples and exercises have been added.

Cases and Materials on the English Legal System (Law in Context)

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Cases and Materials on the English Legal System (Law in Context)
Michael Zander
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ASIN: 0406963800

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This edition takes account of all major legislative and judicial changes including reforms to the new civil justice process, the incorporation of the European Convention of Human Rights into UK law, and developments in the area of criminal justice. Written by a respected author in this field, the book contains a collection of materials taken from a wide variety of sources, and a useful commentary highlights issues of particular importance. This book is a companion to 'Zander: The Law Making Process'.

Sentencing and Criminal Justice (Law in Context)

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Sentencing and Criminal Justice (Law in Context)
Andrew Ashworth
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ASIN: 0521674050

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Featuring unrivalled coverage of one of the most high-profile stages in the criminal justice process, this book examines the key issues in sentencing policy and practice. It provides an up-to-date account of legislation on sentencing as well as the ever-increasing amount of Court of Appeal law cases. The law in relation to elements of the wider criminal justice system is critically examined, including prison and probation services. The new edition has been extensively revised to integrate the new laws introduced by the Criminal Justice Act 2003, which has brought sweeping reforms into English sentencing.

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English Legal System in Context
Fiona Cownie , Anthony Bradney , and Mandy Burton
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ASIN: 0406966508

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Following the same structure and philosophy as the two previous editions which have made this work so well respected, the new, third edition of the English Legal System in Context offers a fresh approach to this core subject by considering a wider range of issues than can be found in other texts in this field. One example of this expanded approach can be seen in its coverage of the legal justice system. Here the authors consider the police, their powers and the rights of suspects detained at the police station. However, they also examine the world of private policing, the work of environmental health officers and other non-police prosecutors, as well as the role of the public in uncovering crime.

Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law (Law in Context)

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Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law (Law in Context)
Peter Cane , and Patrick Atiyah
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ASIN: 0521689317

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Since its first publication, Accidents, Compensation and the Law has been recognised as the leading treatment of the law of personal injuries compensation and the social, political and economic issues surrounding it. The seventh edition of this classic work explores recent momentous changes in personal injury law and practice and puts them into broad perspective. Most significantly, it examines developments affecting the financing and conduct of personal injury claiming: the abolition of legal aid for most personal injury claims; the increasing use of conditional fee agreements and after-the-event insurance; the meteoric rise and impending regulation of the claims management industry. Complaints that Britain is a 'compensation culture' suffering an 'insurance crisis' are investigated. New statistics on tort claims are discussed, providing fresh insights into the evolution of the tort system which, despite recent reforms, remains deeply flawed and ripe for radical reform.

Criminal Evidence in Context (Textbooks)

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Criminal Evidence in Context (Textbooks)
Claire Mcgourlay
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Dispute Processes: ADR and the Primary Forms of Decision Making (Law in Context)

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Dispute Processes: ADR and the Primary Forms of Decision Making (Law in Context)
Simon Roberts , and David Palmer
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Dispute Processes - ADR and the Primary Forms of Decision Making brings together and analyses a wide range of materials dealing with disputes and their resolution and provides a more comprehensive selection of texts than in other books. It throws a new light on the ADR movement and takes a broad, comparative perspective, with the focus on the processes of negotiation and mediation.

Legal Ethics: Text and Materials (Law in Context)

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Legal Ethics: Text and Materials (Law in Context)
Richard O'Dair
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ASIN: 0406997586

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This new title examines all issues concerned with legal ethics. Part one looks at lawyers' ethics including professionalism and the English legal profession and professional regulation. Part two addresses specific topics in legal ethics including confidentiality, criminal defence and prosecution, counselling, negotiation and conflict of interest.

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Social Security Law in Context
Gillian Douglas , Tamara Hervey , Stephen Jones , Simon Rahilly , Roy Sainsbury , and Nick Wikeley
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The social security system of Great Britain has reached a crossroads, following the election of a Labour Government promising a 'New Age' of welfare and seemingly prepared to 'think the unthinkable' on welfare reform, at a time when public expenditure on welfare benefits has reached nearly L100 billion per annum. In 1985 the Conservative's Green Paper on social security reform announced that the benefits system had 'lost its way'. Attempts were made to curb benefits expenditure and reduce welfare dependency, for example through better 'targeting' of needs, the reinforcement of personal and family responsibility, and tighter administrative controls. The ten years from 1988 to 1998 saw the introduction of many new benefit schemes including income support, family credit, the social fund, disability living allowance, incapacity benefit, and jobseeker's allowance as well as the increasing influence of European Law. Yet the system 'achieves too little' according to the new Government's Green Paper on welfare reform, which promises ' a new contract between the citizen and the Government, based on responsibilities and rights'. The precise form these responsibilities and rights will take remains unknown, although we already have schemes like the New Deal and proposals for stakeholder pensions. Meanwhile, social security law continues to impact upon the lives of millions of citizens. After ten years of major legislative change, and with the prospect of a new direction, this is a time to take stock and to analyse the social and legal impact of the past decade's legislation, case law, and policy, as well as considering possible reforms. The book's approach is to organise this task thematically, particularly with regard to the social context to social security, through discrete chapters on, for example, gender and the family, disability, housing, old age, and unemployment. It is also opportune to examine the theoretical framework of state welfare and social security, particularly in the context of social rights. The book aims to provide an authoritative, contextual and critical account of how British social security law has evolved, how it operates, its substance, and its social effects.

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This book by one of the leaders in adaptive optics covers the fundamental theory and then describes in detail how this technology can be applied to large ground-based telescopes to compensate for the effects of atmospheric turbulence. It includes information on basic adaptive optics components and technology, and has chapters devoted to atmospheric turbulence, optical image structure, laser beacons, and overall system design. The chapter on system design is particularly detailed and includes performance estimation and optimization. Combining a clear discussion of physical principles with numerous real-world examples, this book will be a valuable resource for all graduate students and researchers in astronomy and optics.

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The book is a must for readers interested in adaptive optics.......2000-06-25

The book does an excellent job of describing the basic principles and the practice of adaptive optics for astronomical applications. The author was a pioneer in adaptive optics and in the 1970s he built the first system capable of compensating a large astronomical telescope at visible wavelengths. The book gives a good history of adaptive optics including an excellent bibliography. Wavefront sensors, correctors, laser beacons, and wavefront reconstruction and control systems are described. Current adaptive optics programs are described and future prospects are discussed. I had the good fortune of working with the author at the time the first adaptive optics system was built and the author conveys in this book the excitement we felt about adaptive optics at that time. While the book is very specialized and technical, and the number of readers who will enjoy the book is limited, if you are interested in adaptive optics the reading of this book is a must.

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Adaptive Optics in Astronomy

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Introduction to Adaptive Optics (SPIE Tutorial Texts in Optical Engineering Vol. TT41)

ASIN: 0521612144

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Adaptive optics is a powerful new technique used to sharpen telescope images blurred by the Earth’s atmosphere. This authoritative book is the first dedicated to the use of adaptive optics in astronomy. Mainly developed for defence applications, the technique of adaptive optics has only recently been introduced in astronomy. Already it has allowed ground-based telescopes to produce images with sharpness rivalling those from the Hubble Space Telescope. The technique is expected to revolutionise the future of ground-based optical astronomy. Written by an international team of experts who have pioneered the development of the field, this timely volume provides both a rigorous introduction to the technique and a comprehensive review of current and future systems. It is set to become the standard reference for graduate students, researchers and optical engineers in astronomy and other areas of science where adaptive optics is finding exciting new applications.

Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics for Astronomy (NATO Science Series C:)

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ASIN: 0792363817

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Adaptive optics allows the theoretical limit of angular resolution to be achieved from a large telescope, despite the presence of turbulence. Thus an eight meter class telescope, such as one of the four in the Very Large Telescope operated by ESO in Chile, will in future be routinely capable of an angular resolution of almost 0.01 arcsec, compared tot he present resolution of about 0.5 arcsec for conventional imaging in good condition.
All the world's major telescopes either have adaptive optics or are in the process of building AO systems. It turns out that a reasonable fraction of the sky can be observed using adaptive optics, with moderately good imaging quality, provided imaging in done in the near IR. To move out of the near IR, with its relatively poor angular resolution, astronomers need a laser guide star. There is a layer of Na atoms at approximately 90 km altitude that can be excited by a laser to produce such a source, or Rayleigh scattering can be employed lower in the atmosphere. But the production and use of laser guide stars is not trivial, and the key issues determining their successful implementation are discussed here, including the physics of the Na atom, the cone effect, tilt determination, sky coverage, and numerous potential astronomical applications.

Adaptive Optics And Applications III (Proceedings of S P I E)

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Adaptive Optics And Applications III (Proceedings of S P I E)

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Adaptive Optics for Astronomy (NATO Science Series C:)

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ASIN: 0792327489

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The blossoming of adaptive optical techniques has brought about a revolution in the field of astronomical observation. Coupled with the new generation of large, ground-based telescopes, it allows us to achieve an unprecendented angular resolution in the analysis of faint astronomical sources at optical wavelengths. This book provides the basic concepts of adaptive optics, discusses the possible instrumental strategies and the state-of-the-art technical achievements of this development and presents the key astrophysical programs which will most benefit from it. Over fifteen well-known experts have contributed to making this volume a comprehensive one, with steady progression as well as full coverage of the various aspects of the field. Students graduating in optical sciences and astrophysics, astronomers, engineers interested in atmospheric turbulence compensation will find this book a reference text on the subject.

Adaptive Optics in Astronomy (Selected Papers on CD-ROM)

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Adaptive Optics in Astronomy (Selected Papers on CD-ROM)

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Adaptive Optics in Astronomy: Proceedings : 17-18 March 1994 Kona, Hawaii (Proceedings of S P I E)

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Adaptive Optics in Astronomy: Proceedings : 17-18 March 1994 Kona, Hawaii (Proceedings of S P I E)

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Adaptive Optics Systems and Technology: Proceedings of Spie 21-22 July 1999 Denver, Colorado (Proceedings of Spie--the International Society for Optical Engineering, V. 3762.)

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Adaptive Optics: Current Abstracts With Indexes

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Adaptive Optics: Current Abstracts With Indexes

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Airborne Laser Advanced Technology II: Proceedings of Spie, 5-7 April 1999, Orlando, Florida (Proceedings of Spie--the International Society for Optical Engineering, V. 3706.)

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