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Principles of Evidence fourth edition • provides invaluable assistance to students and practitioners alike; • continues to assess the impact of the Constitution on the traditional Anglo-South African law of evidence, with attention paid to the admissibility of unconstitutionally obtained evidence in particular; • examines the growing body of case law dealing with hearsay evidence, confessions and admissions; • analyses recent case law developments regarding the use of the previous inconsistent statement of a hostile witness as an admissible form of substantive evidence; • offers a separate discussion of statutory provisions regulating matters as diverse as, for example, sexual history evidence and the admissibility of electronic evidence; • considers the following sections of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act 32 of 2007: s 58 (previous report of victim of sexual offence); s 59 (delay in reporting); and $ 60 (abolition of cautionary rule in respect of victim's evidence).