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84 Exclusion of admissions influenced by violence and
certain other conduct
(1) Evidence of an admission is not admissible unless the court is
satisfied that the admission, and the making of the admission, were
not influenced by—
(a) violent, oppressive, inhuman or degrading conduct, whether
towards the person who made the admission or towards
someone else; or
(b) a threat of conduct mentioned in paragraph (a).
(2) Subsection (1) only applies if the party against whom evidence of the
admission is presented has raised in the proceeding an issue about
whether the admission or its making were influenced in a way
mentioned in subsection (1).