Faculty Publications


SANKOFF, P.

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Books

A. Mewett and P. Sankoff, Witnesses (Toronto: Carswell 1991), updated looseleaf treatise (Appointed co-author June 1999). Sole author since May 2001).

P. Sankoff, The Portable Guide to Witnesses (Toronto: Carswell, 2006, 2d. ed, 2011).

P. Sankoff and S. White, eds., Animal Law in Australasia: A New Dialogue (Sydney: Federation Press, 2009).

M. Manning and P. Sankoff, Manning, Mewett and Sankoff: Criminal Law, 4th ed., (Toronto: Lexis-Nexis, 2009).

P. Sankoff, Canadian Encyclopedic Digest: Evidence (Toronto: Thomson-Reuters, 2011).

P. Sankoff and S. Optican, The Evidence Act Revisited for Criminal Lawyers (Wellington: New Zealand Law Society, 2010) (165 pp.),

 

Book Chapters

The Welfare Paradigm: Making the World a Better Place for Animals?, Sankoff and White (eds.), Animal Law in Australasia: A New Dialogue (publication details above).

Animal Law: A Subject in Search of Scholarship in Sankoff and White (eds.), Animal Law in Australasia: A New Dialogue (publication details above).

Constituents in the Trial Process: The Evolution of the Common Law Criminal Trial in New Zealand, in Brookbanks and Tolmie (eds), Criminal Justice in New Zealand (Auckland: Lexis-Nexis Butterworths, 2007).

 

Published Articles

Wildlife and the Animal Welfare Act 1999: Can "Cruel" Acts of Hunting Ever Be Prosecuted? (2011) 15 New Zealand Journal of Environmental Law, forthcoming.

R. v. Nedelcu: The Role of Compulsion in Excluding Incriminating Testimony Under s. 13 of the Charter (2011) 83 Criminal Reports (6th) 55.

Turn Up the Dialogue (2008) 1 Australian Journal of Animal Protection 2.

Rewriting the Charter: Four Suggestions for a Fairer Evidentiary and Trial Process (2008) 40 Sup. Ct. L. Rev. 349.

Charting the Growth of Animal Law in Education (2008) 4 Journal of Animal Law 105.

Is Three Really a Crowd?  Thoughts About Victim Impact Statements and New Zealand's Revamped Sentencing Regime [2007] New Zealand Law Review 459.

The Search for A Better Understanding of Discretionary Power in Evidence Law (2007) 32 Queens L.J. 487.

Majority Jury Verdicts and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (2006) 39 U.B.C. Law Review 333.

Corbett Revisited: A Fairer Approach to the Admission of An Accused's Prior Record in Cross-Examination (2006) 51 Crim. L.Q. 400.

Spousal Incompetence and The Principled Approach to Hearsay Admissibility: When Ancient and Modern Doctrines Collide (2006) 35 C.R. (6th) 43.

Wrongful Convictions and the Shock Wave Effect [2006] N.Z.L.J. 134.

Corbett, Crimes of Dishonesty and the Credibility Contest: Challenging the Accepted Wisdom on What Makes Prior Conviction Probative (2006) 10 Can. L. Rev. 215.

Generally Speaking, We're Going in the Right Direction - A Response to the Honorable Claire L'Heureux-Dube (2006) 3 Ohio State J. Crim. L. 491.

Western Law: A national law school with an international outlook.