The Right to Confrontation in Europe (2nd ed.)

This book investigates the theory and practice of the Right to Confrontation, the right of accused persons to examine witnesses against them. Although exceptions to confrontation have always been recognised by domestic criminal courts, no European consensus exists on the values and interests that may legitimately allow incursions into this fundamental right. Based upon the concept of testimonial evidence – which was first developed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Crawford v. Washington in 2004 - th