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Module SXL-2125:

Module Facts

Run by School of Law

20 Credits or 10 ECTS Credits

Semester 2

Organiser: Ms Chaynee Hodgetts

Overall aims and purpose

Evidence is an optional module in the LLB programme.

The aim of this module is: To enable students to state and apply the rules of the English and Welsh law of Evidence dealt with in the course accurately and relevantly; To enable students to make critical assessments of the law and the scholarship pertaining thereto, and to form their own, individual, critical academic opinions; To enable students to compare and contrast that law accurately and relevantly with the equivalent areas of any other legal system with which the student is familiar; To enable students to relate that law to the particular circumstances – political, social, cultural – in which it developed; To encourage all to develop their own understanding of this area of law by provoking curiosity to seek information for themselves, ask questions, and consider views other than the status quo.

Course content

The module will allow the student to study the modern English and Welsh law of evidence, including the law relating to: the burden and standard of proof, hearsay, confessions and the right to silence, corroboration, competence and compellability, identification evidence, opinion evidence, evidence of character, and similar fact evidence.

Assessment Criteria




An answer which, while always in the main accurate and correct, fails to distinguish between relevant and irrelevant material and is lacking in criticism. An answer which while reliable with regard to correctness is either not comprehensive or not entirely pertinent.




Learning outcomes

  1. Describe and comment on the principal characteristics and concepts of the law of evidence in England and Wales.

  2. Explain the principles concerning the allocation of significance to evidence and the rules governing the admissibility of evidence.

  3. Demonstrate an understanding of the complexity of key developments in relation to the rules governing the admissibility of evidence of visual identification, the law relating to the admissibility of confessions, the law relating to the burden and standard of proof and the law relating to hearsay and bad character.

  4. Identify the key components of the law and rules of evidence and apply them to actual or hypothetical factual scenarios.

  5. Find, identify and use relevant legal sources related to the law of evidence.

Assessment Methods

Type Name Description Weight
Written assignment 1
Final Examination 2

Teaching and Learning Strategy

Private study 160



Transferable skills

  • Exploring - Able to investigate, research and consider alternatives

Subject specific skills



Pre- and Co-requisite Modules

Courses including this module