The Effect of Human RIghts on Criminal Evidentiary Processes: Convergence, Divergence or Realignment?

John Jackson

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Abstract

This article examines the contribution which the European Court of Human Rights has made to the development of common evidentiary processes across the common law and civil law systems of criminal procedure in Europe. It is argued that the continuing use of terms such as 'adversarial' and 'inquisitorial' to describe models of criminal proof and procedure has obscured the genuinely transformative nature of the Court's jurisprudence. It is shown that over a number of years the Court has been steadily developing a new model of proof that is better characterised as 'participatory' than as 'adversarial' or 'inquisitorial'. Instead of leading towards a convergence of existing 'adversarial' and 'inquisitorial' models of proof, this is more likely to lead towards a realignment of existing processes of proof which nonetheless allows plenty of scope for diverse application in different institutional and cultural settings.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)737-764
Number of pages28
JournalModern Law Review
Volume68(5)
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2005

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