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Toward An International Criminal Procedure: Due Process Aspirations And Limitations, Gregory S. Gordon
Toward An International Criminal Procedure: Due Process Aspirations And Limitations, Gregory S. Gordon
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The breathtaking growth of international criminal law over the past decade has resulted in the prosecution of Balkan and Rwandan mass murderers, the development of a substantial body of atrocity law jurisprudence and the creation of a permanent International Criminal Court with jurisdiction over genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The growth of international criminal procedure, unfortunately, has not kept pace. Among its shortcomings, critics have pointed to lengthy pre-trial detention without a real possibility of provisional release, the use of affidavits and transcripts instead of live witnesses at trial, the absence of juries, and the right of prosecutorial …
Common Law Police Powers And Exclusion Of Evidence: The Renaissance Of Good Faith, Steve Coughlan
Common Law Police Powers And Exclusion Of Evidence: The Renaissance Of Good Faith, Steve Coughlan
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Canadian courts have become far more willing in recent years to rely on the common law as a source of new police powers. Where once the test from R. v. Waterfield was an exception and an afterthought to what was otherwise the general rule of insistence upon statutory sources for police powers, more recently that test seems to be in the forefront of judges' minds as they decide cases. That 1963 British decision has been cited by Canadian courts roughly as often in the last eight years as in the first 35 years after it was decided. Since 1999 the …
The Too Easy Historical Assumptions Of Crawford V. Washington, Randolph N. Jonakait
The Too Easy Historical Assumptions Of Crawford V. Washington, Randolph N. Jonakait
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