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Intro - Dr Kai Luck | Barrister
Overview of Evidence Law
--- Overview of Evidence Law
--- Visual | Evidence Answer Structure: A Roadmap
--- Tendering Vs Admissibility
--- Example: Tendering Vs Admissibilty
--- Quiz: Tendering Vs Admissibility
--- Exam Skill Tip: Tendering Vs Admissibility
--- Types of Evidence
Lesson 1: Competence and Compellability (ss 12 - 18)
--- Examples: Competence and Compellability (ss 12, 13, 18)
--- Bench Book Commentary | Competence and Compellability
--- Quiz: Competence and Compellability (ss 12,13,18)
Lesson 2: Oaths and Affirmations
--- Oaths and Affirmations (ss 21 - 24)
--- Example: Oaths and Affirmations (ss 21 - 24)
--- Quizz: Oaths and Affirmations (ss 21 - 24)
--- Case Scenario: Oaths and Affirmations (ss 21 -24)
Lesson 3: General rules about giving evidence (ss 26 - 29, 32 to 34)
--- Example: General rules about giving evidence
--- Case Scenario: General rules about giving evidence
Lesson 4: Examination and Cross-examination of witnesses (ss 37 to 46)
--- Browne v Dunn Rule
--- Browne v Dunn | Dr Kai Luck
--- Exam Skill Tip | Browne v Dunn
--- Jones v Dunkel rule
--- Jones v Dunkel | Dr Kai Luck
--- Quiz: Examination-in-Chief
--- || Cross-examination (ss 32, 38, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 104)
--- Examples: Cross-examination
--- Case Scenario: Cross Examination
--- Quiz: Cross-examination
--- Visual Aid | Irving Younger's 10 Commandments of Cross-Examination (Not assessed)
Lesson 5: Documentary Evidence
--- Example: Documentary Evidence
--- Case Scenario: Documentary Evidence
Overview: Admissibility of Evidence
--- Admissibility of Evidence
--- Categories of admissible and inadmissible evidence
Lesson 6: Relevance | Dr Kai Luck
--- Relevance (s 55)
--- Example: Relevance (s 55)
--- Quiz: Relevance (s 55)
--- Visual | Exam Skill | Structuring Your Answer
--- Exam Skill Tip: Structuring Your Answer
---Exam Skill Tip: IRAC
Lesson 7: Hearsay and its primary exceptions | Dr Kai Luck
--- Hearsay Rule (s 59)
--- Hearsay Rule (s 59)
--- Visual | Hearsay Roadmap
--- Example: Hearsay Rule
--- Quiz - Hearsay Rule (ss 59,60)
--- Example: Hearsay Rule
--- || First-hand hearsay (ss 62,63,65) - Maker is unavailable
--- Example - First-hand Hearsay (ss 62,63,65)
--- Quiz - First-hand Hearsay (ss 62, 65)
--- || First-hand hearsay (ss 65, 66)
--- Example: First-hand Hearsay (s 66)
--- First-hand hearsay (ss 67, 68) | Notice requirements & Objections
--- Exam skill tip: first-hand hearsay | structuring your answer
--- Quiz: First-hand Hearsay
--- Business Records Exception (s 69)
--- Business Records Exception (s 69)
--- Example - Business Records Exception (s 69)
--- Quiz - Business Records Exception (s 69)
--- Visual | Hearsay Roadmap
Lesson 8: Opinion Evidence
--- Case Study: Opinion Evidence
--- Quiz: Opinion Evidence
Lesson 9: Admissions
--- Case Scenario - First-hand Admission
--- Case Scenario - First-hand Admission
Lesson 10: Tendency and Coincidence Evidence
--- Tendency | Dr Kai Luck
--- Tendency and Coincidence Evidence
--- Cases on Tendency and Coincidence Evidence
--- Visual: A Comparison between Tendency and Coincidence Evidence
--- Example 1: Tendency Evidence
--- Example 2: Coincidence Evidence
--- Quiz: Tendency and Coincidence Evidence
Lesson 11: Credibility Evidence
--- Visual | A Comparison Between Character Evidence and Credibility Evidence
--- Example 1: Prior Inconsistent Statements, Bias, and Cross-Examination
--- Example 2: Expert Evidence
--- Quiz: Credibility Evidence
Lesson 12: Character Evidence
--- Quiz - Character Evidence
--- Cases on character evidence
--- Case Scenario - Character Evidence
--- Exam Skill Tip | Pre-drafting your answers
--- Visual | Exam Skill Tip | Pre-drafting Your Answers
Lesson 13: Identification Evidence (ss 113 - 115)
--- Examples: Identification Evidence
--- Quiz: Identification Evidence
Lesson 14 : Privilege (s 118, 119, 128, 128A, 131)
--- Examples: Privilege
--- Quiz: Privilege
--- Visual | Comparison Table: Legal Advice (s 118) and Litigation Privilege (s 119)
--- Visual | Types of Privilege
Lesson 15: Exclusionary discretions: (ss 135-139, 90)
--- Case Study 1: Court's discretion
--- Case Study 2: Section 138 Discretion
--- Case Study 3: Exclusion of Admissions
--- Quiz: Exclusionary discretions
--- Quiz: Court's discretion
Lesson 16: Burden and standard of proof (ss 141, 142)
--- Burden and Standards of Proof
--- Case Study: Standards of Proof
--- Visual | Standards of Proof
--- Quiz: Standards of Proof
--- Lesson 17: Procedure on questions of admissibility of evidence (ss 189, 191 - 193)
--- Voir Dire (s 189)
--- Example: Voir Dire
--- Quiz: Voir Dire
--- Waiver of Rules of Evidence (s 190)
--- Example: Waiver of Rules of Evidence
--- Quiz: Waiver of Rules of Evidence
--- Agreement as to Facts (s 191)
--- Example: Agreement as to Facts
--- Quiz: Agreement as to Facts
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