Published 2020
“…This thesis presents a socio-legal analysis of the use of non-defendant character evidence in
Crown Court criminal trials. Combining an in-depth doctrinal analysis of s.100 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 and s.41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act with original qualitative empirical methods (interviews with trial
counsel and observations of real
Crown Court trials), the thesis explores the real-life practical operation of these two rules of exclusion and their associated inclusionary exceptions, and how these rules influence the pre-trial process and eventual trial tactics of
counsel. …”
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