Bad Character Evidence in UK Law
-
Bad Character Evidence and Reprehensible Behaviour
The Criminal Justice Act 2003 ushered in a new system for determining the admissibility of bad character evidence in criminal proceedings. Unfortunately, this system is riddled with anomalies and p...
- Bad Character Evidence and Potential Satellite Litigation
-
Bad Character Evidence and Non-Party Witnesses under the Criminal Justice Act 2003
The current extent to which a non-party witness in criminal proceedings can be cross-examined about previous ‘bad character’ is both broad and uncertain in its limits. The Criminal Justice Act 2003...
- Bad character evidence as evidence of identity
-
Wiping the Slate Clean: Reforming Scots Law's Approach to Evidence of the Accused's Bad Character
This paper discusses the Scottish Law Commission (SLC)'s Report on Similar Fact Evidence and the Moorov Doctrine, which proposes revolutionary changes to the way in which Scots law deals with evide...
- Non-conviction Bad Character Evidence and Directions to the Jury on Use to Show Propensity R v Mitchell [2016] UKSC 55
-
Sexual Behaviour Evidence and Evidence of Bad Character in Sexual Offence Proceedings: Proposing a Combined Admissibility Framework
This article critically evaluates whether the ‘rape shield’ legislation in England and Wales, as currently contained in s 41 Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act (YJ&CEA) 1999, is fit for pu...
- The meaning of ‘reasonable belief in consent’ under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and the admissibility of bad character evidence under the Criminal Justice Act 2003: R v Hepburn [2020] EWCA Crim 820
- Evidence of Bad Character: Criminal Justice Act 2003; Commencement
- Admissibility of Evidence of Co-defendant’s Bad Character under s. 101(1)(e) Criminal Justice Act 2003
See all results