Sinclair v R
Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
Neutral Citation | 1946-1223 HCA D,[1946] HCA 55 |
Year | 1946 |
Date | 1946 |
Court | High Court |
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Tofilau v The Queen
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Admissibility of confession evidence: Principles of hearsay and the rule of voluntariness
...402 [3] (Gleeson CJ). The strict and automatic nature of the exclusion has sometimes been referred to asa ‘rule of policy’: Sinclair vR(1946) 73 CLR 316 (Dixon J) citing Sumner LJ in Ibrahim, n. 11 above at 610–11, where he saidthe policy was ‘not that the law presumes such statements to be......