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Evidence (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011
84Exclusion of admissions influenced by violence and certain
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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
another person; or
(b) a threat of conduct of that kind.
(2) Subsection (1) only applies if the party against whom evidence of
the admission is adduced has raised in the proceeding an issue
about whether the admission or its making were so influenced.
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