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Description
This book provides a comprehensive and easily accessible guide to the
decision-making and actions of the complete spectrum of practitioner
involvement in the criminal justice process, right from initial
investigation through to court-room proceedings.
Features
- Provides
comprehensive coverage of the complex and controversial topic of
witness testimony across the complete spectrum of practitioner
involvement in the criminal justice process
- Written
by a large author team comprised of many of the leading names in
criminal evidence law and forensic psychology including; Lord Bingham
of Cornhill; Dr Eric Shepherd; and Professor Elizabeth Loftus
- Logically
divided into three parts, looking in turn at each of the three
inter-related perspectives upon a witness' account; psychological,
investigative, and evidential
- Written in a clear and accessible style
- Builds
on the content and structure of its ground-breaking predecessor
Analysing Witness Testimony: A Guide for Legal Practitioners and Other
Professionals (Blackstone Press, March 1999)
Product Details
496 pages; ISBN13: 978-0-19-927809-1 ISBN10: 0-19-927809-1
About the Author(s)
Anthony Heaton-Armstrong is a criminal barrister
of over 30 years call,
currently based at 9-12 Bell Yard Chambers. He has written numerous
published articles on evidence in criminal cases (usually with David
Wolchover), and co-edited Analysing Witness Testimony: A Guide for
Legal Practitioners and Other Professionals (Blackstone Press, 1999)
with Eric Shepherd and David Wolchover. He has liaised extensively with
the Home Office and Police bodies on the PACE Codes of Practice and
disclosure of evidence in criminal cases. He was a member of an
independent review body appointed by the Home Secretary to report on
reforms to the death certification and coronial inquest systems in the
wake of the Shipman killings and other disasters involving multiple
deaths. A former intelligence officer and academic, Eric Shepherd is a
chartered forensic psychologist and chartered counselling psychologist
who specialises in developing individuals' skills in investigating,
interviewing, and analysing evidence. He has worked in the criminal
justice system for some 25 years, instructed by the defence and the
prosecution, as well as the Serious Fraud Office, Criminal Cases Review
Commission, the Police Complaints Authority, and a number of official
inquiries. Throughout this entire period he has been a consultant and
trainer to the police service. Gisli Gudjonsson is a Professor of
Forensic Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College,
London, and Head of the Forensic Psychology Services in South
Southwark, London. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society
and has published extensively in the areas of forensic psychology,
including violence, psychological vulnerability, false confession,
police interviewing, and recovered memories. He pioneered the empirical
measurement of suggestibility and provided expert evaluation in a
number of high profile cases, including those of; the Guildford Four;
the Birmingham Six; the Tottenham Three; the Cardiff Three; Jill Dando
murder case; Kenneth Erskine (the 'Stockwell strangler'); Derek
Bentley; the UDR Four; and 'IRA general murders' cases (both in
Northern Ireland). He acts as a consultant on cases both for
prosecution and defence. David Wolchover was called to the Bar in 1971
and has practised criminal law ever since. David Wolchover is a
practising barrister and former Head of Chambers at 7 Bell Yard,
London. He has published numerous articles on evidence and procedure in
criminal cases (usually with Anthony Heaton-Armstrong), as well as
several books in the field including Analysing Witness Testimony: A
Guide for Legal Practitioners and Other Professionals (Blackstone
Press, 1999), and Bail in Criminal Proceedings (jointly with Neil
Corre, third edition OUP 2004). He was previously instrumental, with
Anthony Heaton-Armstrong, in persuading the Home Office to concede
various significant changes in PACE Code C.
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