Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

EVIDENCE ACT 1971 - SECT 77

    (1)     In this section:

"civil proceeding" does not include an action for libel or slander.

    (2)     The fact that a person has been convicted of an offence by a court is admissible in evidence for the purposes of proving, if to do so is relevant to an issue in a civil proceeding, that the person committed that offence, and, if a person is, in a civil proceeding, proved to have been convicted of an offence by a court, the person shall, unless the contrary is proved, be taken to have committed that offence.

    (3)     This section applies—

        (a)     whether or not a person was convicted on a plea of guilty; and

        (b)     whether or not the person convicted is a party to the civil proceeding.