A judge should test bad character evidence before allowing it to be put in. Here the judge had allowed evidence relating to a dismissal from employment for a racially related matter to be put in, but those proceedings had been unsatisfactory, and were not sufficiently reliable to found bad character evidence.
Citations:
Times 31-May-2000, [2000] EWCA Crim 38
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Criminal Evidence
Updated: 28 July 2022; Ref: scu.158688
