Sexual Assault Trials Handbook — Evidence

P Mizzi and R A Hulme, “Reforming the admissibility of tendency and coincidence evidence in criminal trials”, (2020) 32 JOB 113.

The article outlines reforms to the Criminal Procedure Act 1986, intended to improve the admissibility of tendency and coincidence evidence in all criminal trials, but especially child sexual assault cases, following recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

See further commentary under “Tendency, coincidence and background evidence” at [4-200]ff, including a suggested tendency direction at [4-227], in the Criminal Trial Courts Bench Book.