Bad Character Evidence - Judge's Direction

Bad Character Evidence - Judge's Direction
R v Card [2006] EWCA Crim 1079
CA
11 May 2006
Daily Law Notes Report Summary
The position of a defendant whose bad character had been put in
evidence was safeguarded by s107 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003
which imposed on the trial judge the requirement that he should
stop the trial if the evidence in support of the prosecution might
have been contaminated.