Foreword

Justice Morris Fish (Canada)

Introduction

Professor Barak Ariel (Israel)


Part1: Judicial Perspectives on Wrongful Convictions

Chapter
1. The Pathology of Wrongful Convictions: Perspectives From the Bench

Justice Ian Binnie (Canada)

Chapter
2. Israeli Criminal Law and Confessions: The “Queen of Evidence” Meets the Talmud

Justice Neal Hendel (Israel)


Part2: Factors Contributing to Wrongful Convictions, Detection and Correction

Chapter
3. Police Investigations and False confession

Prof. Boaz Sangero (Israel)

Chapter
4. Police Deception: How Lies and Undercover Operations Contribute to False Confessions

Prof. Kitai-Sangero (Israel)

Chapter
5. Jailhouse Informants in Canadian Courtrooms: Problems and Solutions

Erica Guillione and Prof. Kathryn Campbell (Canada)

Chapter
6. Eyewitness Identification - Recommendations by the Public Committee for the Prevention of False Convictions and Their Correction

Danziger Committee Report (Israel)

Chapter
7. Does the Bystander look Criminal or Just Familiar? A Laboratory Experiment on Eyewitness Misidentification

Professor Lea Jaeger and Israel Nachson (Israel)

Chapter
8. You Say You Want a Revolution? Understanding Guilty Plea Wrongful Convictions

Prof. Kent Roach (Canada)

Chapter
9. Forensic Pathology in Canada

John Butt (Canada)

Chapter
10. Three wrongs don’t make a right: On the near impossibility of post-conviction forensic testing in Israel

Prof. Rottem Rosenberg-Rubins (Israel)


Part3: Post Conviction Models of Exoneration

Chapter
11. Institutional Models for Exoneration ? The Criminal Cases Review Commission

Prof. Hannah Quirk (UK)

Chapter
12. The North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission: An Innovative Approach to Post-Conviction Claims of Factual Innocence

Lindsey Guise Smith (USA)

Chapter
13. The Reopening of Criminal Cases in Norway

Prof. Siv Hallgren (Norway)

Chapter
14. The New Zealand Experience: Te K?hui T?tari Ture/The Criminal Cases Review Commission

Colin Carruthers and Parekawhia McLean (New Zealand)

Chapter
15. Miscarriages of Justice in Australia: Unfinished Business

The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG (Australia)

Chapter
16. UK Criminal Cases Review Commission and the Slow Road to Policy Transfer in Canada

Professor Clive Walker and Professor Kathryn Campbell (Canada)

Chapter
17. Retrial in Israel: A Need for a Restart

Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer and Gal Harnik Blum (Israel)


Part4: Case Studies

Chapter
18. The Interrogation

Hanan Peled and Avidgor Feldman (Israel)

Chapter
19. The Wrongful Conviction of Jens Soering

Professor Irwin Cotler (USA)

Chapter
20. The Wilbert Coffin Story: A Miscarriage of Justice?

Michael Rooney, Hanna Irwin and Professor Kathryn M. Campbell (Canada)

References