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The Operation of YJCEA 1999 section 41 in the Courts of England and Wales: views from the barristers’ row An independent empirical study commissioned by the Criminal Bar Association

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This study constitutes the largest empirical study of the use of previous sexual behaviour evidence in sexual offence trials in the courts of England and Wales ever conducted. It is impossible to understand how such evidence is handled in trials merely from reading reported judgments, because these reflect only cases which the defence has appealed to the Court of Appeal on the basis that such evidence was wrongly excluded by the trial judge, since the prosecution does not have an equivalent r...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
Law
Sub department:
Law Faculty
Oxford college:
Wadham College
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Criminal Bar Association
Publication date:
2018-11-29
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pubs:951456
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uuid:b20b6eab-7a41-4fa5-adc9-cf1656662f46
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pubs:951456
Source identifiers:
951456
Deposit date:
2018-12-11

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