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MAJOR NEW TITLES THIS MONTH – Continued
analysis of the various
mechanisms - the standard
of proof, the benefit of the
doubt, the presumption of
innocence and the burden
of proof - for implementing
society’s view about
the relative importance of
the errors that can occur
in a trial.
process in depth and includes
checklists to aid
understanding.
Laudan, Larry, Truth, Error
and Criminal Law:
An Essay in Epistemology,
Cambridge Univ
Press, HB, £48.00, ISBN:
0521861667
Beginning with the premise
that the principal function
of a criminal trial is to find
out the truth about a crime,
Larry Laudan examines
the rules of evidence and
procedure that would be
appropriate if the discovery
of the truth were, as
higher courts routinely
claim, the overriding aim
of the criminal justice system.
Laudan mounts a systematic
critique of existing
rules and procedures that
are obstacles to that quest.
He also examines issues
of error distribution by
offering the first integrated
10 WILDY’S BOOK NEWS
Lewis, Amanda, Outsourcing
Contracts - A
Practical Guide, City &
Financial, PB, £70.00,
ISBN: 1905121121
This is a complete practical
guide to the process,
management and regulation
of outsourcing, taking
the reader through the
contract negotiation and
all the issues that need to
be considered. The text
covers every stage of the
Llewelyn, Margaret and
Adcock, Mike, European
Plant Intellectual
Property, Hart Publishing,
HB, £90.00, ISBN:
1841133221
This work analyses European
plant intellectual
property rights. Whilst
the focus of the work is
on Europe and in particular
the European Patent
Convention, Community
Regulation on Plant Variety
Rights and the EU
Directive on the Legal
Protection of Biotechnological
Inventions, this
provision is discussed
within the context of international
legislation in-