Download or read book The Impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 on the Law of Evidence in the United Kingdom written by Kacper Zajac and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Law - Criminal process, Criminology, Law Enforcement, grade: 60, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, course: LLB, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this essay is to critically examine the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 on the operation of the burden of proof and on the area of law concerned with the exclusion of evidence obtained by illegal or improper means. From the text: Presumption of innocence; Human Rights Act; Evidential Burden; Legal Burden.