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The debate on public opinion and judicial impartiality in mainland China : a critical review from a comparative perspective (2014)
Thesis
Duan, Z. (2014). The debate on public opinion and judicial impartiality in mainland China : a critical review from a comparative perspective. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224037

In recent years in mainland China, a number of high profile cases have caused a stir amongst the public and triggered concern on the part of Chinese scholars about the negative influence of public opinion on judicial impartiality and judicial indepen... Read More about The debate on public opinion and judicial impartiality in mainland China : a critical review from a comparative perspective.

Expert evidence and the Law Commission : implementation without legislation? (2013)
Journal Article
Ward, T. (2013). Expert evidence and the Law Commission : implementation without legislation?. Criminal Law Review -London-, 561-576

Argues that, despite a failure to implement the recommendations in the Law Commission's 2011 report entitled "Expert Evidence in Criminal Proceedings", many of its proposals on the exclusion of such evidence might be introduced by the judiciary's app... Read More about Expert evidence and the Law Commission : implementation without legislation?.

Expert evidence, judicial reasoning, and the family courts information pilot (2012)
Journal Article
Ward, T. (2012). Expert evidence, judicial reasoning, and the family courts information pilot. Journal of Law and Society, 39(4), 515-540. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2012.00598.x

The Family Courts Information Pilot made a modest step towards open justice in Children Act cases by publishing 160 judgments of the County Courts and Family Proceedings Courts. This article focuses on the reasoning about expert evidence in the judge... Read More about Expert evidence, judicial reasoning, and the family courts information pilot.

State crime: a dialectical view (2012)
Book Chapter
Green, P., & Ward, T. (2012). State crime: a dialectical view. In M. Maguire, R. Morgan, & R. Reiner (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of criminology (717-740). (5th). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/he/9780199590278.003.0024

This chapter, which examines state crime, which includes genocide, war crimes, torture, police violence, and ‘grand corruption’ (the ruling elite's organised plunder of national resources, first proposes a definition that views state crime as a form... Read More about State crime: a dialectical view.