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Circumstantial and Bad Character Evidence Considered


 
When Can Circumstantial Evidence Be Used As Bad Character Evidence?
 R v Wallace
CA
Weekly Law Reports Summary
16 July 2007

Where the case against a defendant on one count relied on circumstantial evidence relating to other counts charged in the same proceedings, that evidence fell within the definition of bad character in s 98 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 and was therefore only admissible pursuant to the bad character provisions under that Act.
 
 

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