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Record 1 2015-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Law of Evidence
CONT

The witnesses would have been allowed to say that P.B. had made statements to them of sexual abuse by her stepfather. That is all that would be required - or permitted - to rebut the allegation by the appellant that the complainant's testimony was of recent invention.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Droit de la preuve

Spanish

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