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Fairness in Criminal Appeal: A Critical and Interdisciplinary Analysis of the ECtHR Case-Law

Fairness in Criminal Appeal: A Critical and Interdisciplinary Analysis of the ECtHR Case-Law

Author: Helena Morão; Ricardo Tavares Da Silva
Publisher: Springer International
ISBN: 9783031130007

Published In: February 2023
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Switzerland ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Paperback Edition ISBN: 9783031130038

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This book addresses the European Court of Human Rights' fairness standards in criminal appeal, filling a gap in this less researched area of studies. Based on a fair trial immediacy requirement, the Court has found several violations of Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights at the appellate level by at least eighteen States of the Council of Europe in a vast array of cases, particularly in contexts of first instance acquittals overturning and of sentences increasing on appeal.

On the one hand, the book critically engages this case-law with the law revisions it has recently inspired in European countries, as well as with the critiques and difficulties that it continues to raise. On the other hand, it interweaves insight from criminal procedure theory with new discoveries in the field of cognitive sciences (neuroscience of memory, philosophy of knowledge, AI), shedding an interdisciplinary light on the (in)adequacy and limits of the Strasbourg Court's jurisprudence.

Introduction: The ECtHR case-law on immediacy in criminal appeal

The evidence renewal model in Italy

The retrial model in Spain

The audio recordings model in Portugal: The appeal court's perspective

The audio recordings model in Portugal: The defendant's and the victim's perspectives

Part II: Immediacy in criminal procedure theory and cognitive sciences

Immediacy at the first instance trial

Audio-visual recordings as evidence in criminal procedure.- Neuroscience of memory and philosophy of knowledge challenges to immediacy

AI assistance in the courtroom and immediacy

Concluding thoughts: On the legitimacy of the ECtHR's criminal appeal immediacy requirement