ABSTRACT

Routledge-Cavendish Lawcards are your complete, pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the undergraduate law curriculum and the CPE/GDL. Their concise text, user-friendly layout and compact format make them an ideal revision aid. Helping you to identify, understand and commit to memory the salient points of each area of the law, shouldn’t you make Routledge-Cavendish Lawcards your essential revision companions?

Fully updated and revised with all the most important recent legal developments, Routledge-Cavendish Lawcards are now packed with even more features:

  • New revision checklists help you to consolidate the key issues within each topic
  • Colour coded highlighting really makes cases and legislation stand out
  • New tables of cases and legislation make for easy reference
  • Boxed case notes pick out the cases that are most likely to come up in exams
  • More diagrams and flowcharts clarify and condense complex and important topics

"…these spiral-bound beauties…are an excellent starting point for any enthusiastic reviser. The books are concise and get right down to the nitty-gritty of each topic."

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chapter 1|8 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|10 pages

Competence and compellability

chapter 3|20 pages

The course of testimony

chapter 4|8 pages

Burden and standard of proof

chapter 5|8 pages

Presumptions

chapter 6|12 pages

Hearsay: evidence

chapter 7|6 pages

Hearsay: common law exceptions

chapter 8|8 pages

Hazardous evidence

chapter 9|16 pages

Confessions and ill-gotten evidence

chapter 10|16 pages

Character evidence

chapter 11|8 pages

Opinion evidence

chapter 12|10 pages

Privilege

chapter 13|6 pages

Public interest immunity

chapter 14|8 pages

Facts not requiring proof

chapter 15|6 pages

Judicial findings as evidence

chapter 16|6 pages

Documentary evidence

chapter 17|6 pages

Real evidence

chapter 18|12 pages

Estoppel

chapter 19|6 pages

Putting it into practice . . .