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Truth and Efficiency in Civil Litigation

Fundamental Aspects of Fact-finding and Evidence-taking in a Comparative Context

Book | 1st edition 2012 | United Kingdom | C.H. van Rhee, Alan Uzelac
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In the pursuit of justice, truth always plays a prominent role. Few if any legal systems are willing to waive the right to claim that the results of their legal processes are fair, just and above all based on the truth. In most legal systems, elaborate rules on the taking of evidence try to guarantee that an accurate, factual basis is used for the application of the law. Such rules are the core of most methods of adjudication and they are the main theme of the present volume, which focuses specifically on the rules of evidence within the context of efficiency in civil proceedings. This is not without a reason. Apart from the fact that a link between the pursuit of truth and efficiency has been emphasised since the time of ancient Rome, all legal systems must find the right balance between the amount of time and money invested in the civil trial and the thoroughness of the proof-taking stage in litigation. Obviously, a system of proof that can produce trustworthy results is in need of considerable investment of time and resources, but the amount of time available and resources is not without its limits. If a proper balance between truth and the necessary time and resources cannot be found, the whole process of litigation may be endangered.

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Type of product Book
Format Paperback
EAN / ISSN 9781780681337
Series name Ius Commune Europaeum
Weight 737 g
Status Available
Number of pages xviii + 402 p.
Access to exercice No
Publisher Intersentia
Language English
Publication Date Dec 10, 2012
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  • Table of Contents
  • INTRODUCTION
  • The Pursuit of Truth in Contemporary Civil Procedure: Revival of Accuracy or a New Balance in Favour of Effectiveness?
    C.H. van Rhee, Alan Uzelac
  • TRENDS AND CHALLENGES IN WESTERN EUROPE: THE NETHERLANDS, ITALY
  • More Facts, Less Evidence: The Growing Importance of Fact-gathering and the Demise of the Traditional Presentation of Evidence in Courts in the Netherlands
    Remme Verkerk
  • The Relevance of Truth: The Case of Mediation versus Litigation
    Annie De Roo, Rob Jagtenberg
  • The Antique Shop of Italian Civil procedure: Oath and Confession as Evidence
    Elisabetta Silvestri
  • The Judgment on Facts in Italian Summary Proceedings
    Franco Ferrari
  • Expert Testimony in the Italian Judicial System: Characteristics, Questions and Comparative Views
    Federico Ferraris
  • Inspection by the Court as a Means of Evidence in Italy and The notorium facti permanentis: A Balance between Efficiency and Due Process of Law
    Massimiliano Bina
  • COMMON LAW PERSPECTIVE: USA, SOUTH AFRICA
  • The Demise of Trial in American Civil Procedure: How It Happened, Is It Convergence with European Civil Procedure?
    John H. Langbein
  • Extremism in the Pursuit of Truth is our ‘Virtue’: The American Infatuation with Broad Discovery
    Richard L. Marcus
  • Fact- and Truth-Finding in South African Civil Procedure
    Mohamed Paleker
  • SOCIALIST AND POST-SOCIALIST PERSPECTIVES: CHINA, ROMANIA, SLOVENIA, RUSSIA
  • Efficiency and Truth in Civil Fact-finding: The Evolving Role of the Judge in Mainland China and Hong Kong and the Effect of the Policy Preference for Court Mediation on Fact-finding in the People’s Courts
    Peter Chan
  • Rules of Evidence in Romanian Civil Procedure and Their Impact on Truth and Efficiency
    Sebastian Spinei
  • Efficiency versus Fairness in Civil Procedure in Slovenia
    Vesna Rijavec
  • The Jurisdiction of Russian Courts in Civil Matters
    Valeev Damir Khamitovich, L.V. Fatkhullina, A. Valeeva
  • Truth and Efficiency in Russian Civil Procedure
    Vadim Abolonin, Gleb Abolonin
  • TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE: TRUTH-FINDING AT INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS
  • Taking and Administering Evidence beyond the State - Some Reflections on Procedural Issues before the Court of Justice of the European Union
    Jorg Sladic
  • PURSUIT OF TRUTH AND THE HISTORY OF CIVIL PROCEDURE: ROMAN LAW PERSPECTIVE
  • The Pursuit of Truth and Efficiency in Roman Arbitration Proceedings
    Ivan Milotic
  • Propter celeritatem dirimendarum litium – Presumptions and Stipulatio in Roman Law
    Tomislav Karlovic
  • EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO TRUTH-FINDING
  • Immediate Judgments in Civil Proceedings in the Netherlands – An Experiment
    R. Bloemink, S.P.W. van Dooren, L.I.M. Entjes, S.A.H. van Gompel, Fokke Fernhout