Exclusionary Rules in Comparative Law

This comparative examination of rules excluding illegally gathered evidence in the criminal trial encompasses 15 country studies, includes a chapter on the European Court of Human Rights and offers a comparative synthetic conclusion.

Introduction; Stephen C. Thaman. - Part One: The Vicissitudes of Court-Made Exclusionary Tests: Section One: Common Law Jurisdictions. - Chapter 1: The United States: The Rise and Fall of the Constitutional Exclusionary Rule; Mark E. Cammack. - Chapter 2: Ireland: A Move to Categorical Exclusion? ; Arnaud Cras and Yvonne Daly. - Chapter 3: Scotland: A Plea for Consistency; Fiona Leverick and Findlay Stark. - Chapter 4: Israel: The Supreme Court s New, Cautious Exclusionary Rule; Yuval Merin and Rinat Kitai-Sangero. - Part One: The Vicissitudes of Court-Made Exclusionary Tests:Section Two: Civil Law Balancing. - Chapter 5: Germany: Balancing Truth against Protected Constitutional Interests; Sabine Gless. - Part Two: From Nullities to Statutory Exclusionary Rules in Continental Europe: Section One: The Traditional Approach Based on Statutory Nullities. - Chapter 6: France: Procedural Nullities and Exclusion; Jean Pradel. - Part Two: From Nullities to Statutory Exclusionary Rules in Continental Europe: Section Two: From Nullities to Balancing. - Chapter 7: Belgium: From Categorical Nullities to a Judicially Created Balancing Test; Marie-Aude Beernaert and Philip Traest. - Chapter 8: The Netherlands: Statutory Balancing and a Choice of Remedies: Matthias Borgers and Lonneke Stevens. - Part Two: From Nullities to Statutory Exclusionary Rules in Continental Europe: Section Three: From Nullities to Statutory Exclusionary Rules. - Chapter 9: Spain: The Constitutional Court s Move From Categorical Exclusion to Limited Balancing; Lorena Bachmaier Winter. - Chapter 10: Italy: Statutory Nullities and Non-Usability; Giulio Illuminati. - Chapter 11: Greece: From Nullities to Categorical Statutory and Constitutional Exclusionary Rules; George Triantafyllou. - Chapter 12: Turkey: The Move to Categorical Exclusion of Illegally Gathered Evidence; Adem Sözüer. - Chapter 13: Serbia: Courts Struggle With a New CategoricalStatutory Exclusionary Rule; Snežana Brki . - Part Three: The Fair Trial Test for Exclusion. - Chapter 14: England and Wales: Fair Trial Analysis and the Presumed Admissibility of Physical Evidence; Andrew L-T Choo. - Chapter 15: Taiwan: The Codification of a Judicially-Made Discretionary Exclusionary Rule; Jaw-perng Wang. - Chapter 16: The European Court of Human Rights: The Fair Trial Analysis under Article 6 of the European Convention of Human Rights; Pinar Ölcer. - Part Four: A Comparison of Exclusionary Jurisprudence. - Chapter 17: Balancing Truth Against Human Rights: A Comparative Analysis of the Use of Illegally Gathered Evidence in the Criminal Trial; Stephen C. Thaman. -About the contributors. - index.