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The impact of HRA 1998 on burden of proof and confession
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The law of evidence is very important and plays a major role in the English legal system. Its principles are comprehensive and extensive. Its frameworks could determine between verdicts. The Human Rights Act 1998(HRA) implemented the European Convention of Human Rights(ECHR) into England law. As a result, the rights enshrined in the Convention have had a huge impact on the law of evidence in particular, burden of proof and confession, which will be analysed. Over the years, there has been much statutory reform, including the enactments proposed to bring UK law into line with the ECHR. These reforms have done much to ease or strengthen some restrictions on the admissibility of relevant evidence, to rationalise and clarify the law, to enhance the discretionary powers of the judge, and to remove some of the more inconsistent and unnecessary differences between the rules in civil and criminal cases1. The burden...
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