It is indeed a relief to know that section 155(4) of the Evidence Act that allows character evidence in rape cases will perhaps finally be removed. Rights activists had been protesting against the ...

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IN criminal trials, evidence of a person’s past behaviour—especially conduct suggesting dishonesty or a tendency to commit offences —may sometimes be introduced to support or challenge their ...

With just over four months before trial is scheduled to begin for the four officers charged with violating Tyre Nichols' civil rights, a federal judge is now set to rule on whether certain evidence ...

The Queensland Sexual Assault Network, in a submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s inquiry into justice responses to sexual violence, has also called for the consideration of a civil ...

Anew report commissioned by the Bangladesh Legal Aid & Services Trust (BLAST) and the Thomson Reuters Foundation, provides an insight into the laws regarding use of character evidence about ...

Of all the Federal Rules of Evidence, Rule 404(b) may well be the most cited. Any lawyer who practices federal criminal law is very familiar with the rule. On Dec. 1, 2020, the Supreme Court adopted ...

A survivor advocate behind the campaign calling for good character references to be abolished in sentencing perpetrators of sexual offences has described the NSW reform as "an absolute victory". On ...

Bangladesh will ban questions probing the “immoral character” of rape victims in criminal cases, authorities say, after a long campaign by rights groups against humiliating interrogations of ...