Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Evidence Act 2008 - SECT 84

Exclusion of admissions influenced by violence and certain other conduct

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.