Table of Contents

Preface. 1. Introduction J. R. Spencer; Part I. Presentation of National Systems: 2. The Belgian system Brigitte Pesquié, supervised by Françoise Tulkens, revised by Yves Cartuyvels; 3. The English system J. R. Spencer; 4. The French system Valérie Dervieux, supervised by Mireille Delmas-Marty, revised by Mikaël Benillouche and Olivier Bachelet; 5. The German system Rodolphe Juy-Birmann, supervised by Heike Jung, revised by Jörg Biermann; 6. The Italian system Antoinette Perrodet, supervised by Mario Chiavario, revised by Elena Ricci; Part II. Issues of Current Interest: 7. The public prosecutor Antoinette Perrodet; 8. The balance of power between the police and the public prosecutor Eric Mathias; 9. The role of the judge Denis Salas, revised by Alejandro Alvarez; 10. Private parties: the rights of the defendant and the victim Mario Chiavario; 11. Evidence J. R. Spencer; 12. Negotiated justice Françoise Tulkens, revised by Yves Cartuyvels and Isabelle Wattier; 13. Justice and the media Marcel Lemonde.

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A comparative study of criminal procedures in England, France, Germany, Italy and Belgium.

About the Author

Mireille Delmas-Marty is Professor at the College de France, where she holds the Chair in Comparative Legal Studies and the Internationalisation of Law. Her publications include Pour un droit commun (1994; published as Towards a Truly Common Law by CUP, 2001), Trois defis pour un droit mondial (1998) and Le Relatif et l'Universel (2004). She is also editor of Droit penal des affaires (4th edition 2000). J. R. Spencer is a Fellow of Selwyn College and Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge. His publications include Jackson's Machinery of Justice (8th edition 1989), The Evidence of Children: the Law and the Psychology (2nd edition 1993) and La procedure penale anglaise (1998). He was also part of the international team of lawyers which produced the EU Corpus Juris project, proposing a unified European law for the prosecution of offences of fraud against the Community budget. As well, he was a consultant to Lord Justice Robin Auld's review of the Criminal Courts.