The Civil Procedure Rules place great emphasis on the written presentation of trial materials and increase the propensity for cases to be decided on the papers. Yet the Civil Procedure Rules themselves offer little guidance on the drafting of statements of case. This edition seeks to fill the gap, offering a stock of authoritative, structured precedents, complete with guiding commentary. Restructured and rewritten to ensure it fully reflects the changes in practice, it should prove an easily accessible, user-friendly resource. The two-volume work features subjects such as human rights, harassment, information technology, environment, entertainment and sports law.

This is the first work on Affidavits published in Australia and sets out to provide a reference for evidentiary, formal and procedural rules together with precedents.

In Criminal Discovery: From Truth to Proof and Back Again, author Cosmas Moisidis examines aspects of pre-trial stages such as police interrogations, preliminary hearings and discovery between the prosecution and the defence, addressing contentious issues such as the right to silence and the privilege against self-incrimination. These issues give rise to strong, emotive and polarised differences of opinion. Criminal discovery is an area in which views are entrenched and passions run high. Criminal Discovery: From Truth to Proof and Back Again seeks to inform the current debate through a detailed analysis of the history, theory and practice of criminal discovery. Historical and jurisprudential matters which are not commonly known are here brought to light. The approach is holistic and comparative, examining the issues in detail with reference to the jurisdictions of the United Kingdom, United States, particularly California, and Australia. It concludes with recommendations to guide the future, putting forward a reciprocal criminal discovery model which, it is argued, will enhance the truth seeking potential of the adversarial criminal trial.