A Salutary Lesson on Bad Character – The Devil Is In The Detail – Zenith Chambers

Posted September 17th, 2012 in bad character, news, prosecutions by sally

“In a recent Crown Court trial the Prosecution made a Bad Character application alleging that the factual basis of a previous conviction was so similar to the alleged facts of the instant case, that the previous conviction should be admitted. This was propensity with a heavy dollop of similar fact.”

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Zenith Chambers, 17th September 2012

Source: www.zenithchambers.co.uk