The defendant was not to be allowed to cross-examine the complainaint in a sexual offence case as to her previous sexual history, where there was no evidential basis for the cross-exmination.
Judges:
Keene LJ
Citations:
[2002] 1 WLR 632
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Applied – Regina v Abdeirahman CACD 12-May-2005
The defendant appealed his conviction for rape saying that the judge had wrongly excluded cross examination of the complainanant, in which he had wanted to establish previous false complaints by her.
Held: The appeal failed. The defendant had . .
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Criminal Practice
Updated: 07 May 2022; Ref: scu.228498