General Introduction 1
1 Burdens of Evidence and Proof： Why Bear Them? A Plea for Principled Opportunism in (Leaving) Legal Fact-finding (Alone)&Hendrik Kaptein 15
2 The Fabrication of Facts： The Lure of the Incredible Coincidence&Ton Derksen and Monica Meijsing 39
3 Decision-making in the Forensic Arena&Ton Broeders 71
4 Analysing Stories Using Schemes&Floris Bex 93
5 The Evaluation of Evidence： Differences between Legal Systems&Marijke Malsch and Ian Freckelton 117
6 Inference to the Best Legal Explanation&Amalia Amaya 135
7 Accepting the Truth of a Story about the Facts of a Criminal Case&Bart Verheij and Floris Bex 161
8 Rigid Anarchic Principles of Evidence and Proof：Anomist Panaceas against Legal Pathologies of Proceduralism&Hendrik Kaptein 195
9 A Logical Analysis of Burdens of Proof&Henry Prakken and Giovanni Sartor 223
10 Twelve Angry Men or One Good Woman?Asymmetric Relations in Evidentiary Reasoning&Burkhard Schafer 255
Index 283