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EVIDENCE ACT 2001 - SECT 84 Exclusion of admission influenced by violence and certain other conduct

EVIDENCE ACT 2001 - SECT 84

Exclusion of admission 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 towards the person who made the admission or towards another person; or
(b) a threat of conduct of that kind.
(2)  Subsection (1) applies only 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.