5. The Law Commission's Work on Hearsay and Previous Misconduct

Cowen Z. Carter P. B. (1956) Essays in the Law of Evidence, p 146.

Crown Court Study (Research Study No. 19), page 216.

Dennis I. H. (1983) Evidence Against a Co-Accused. 36 CLP 177, 182.

Devlin (1956) Trial by Jury (revised third edn 1965) p. 114.

Williams Glanville , (1963) The Proof of Guilt — a Study of the English Criminal Trial (third edn. 1963) p. 207.

Griffiths [1995] AC 596, 613.

Heydon J. D. (1991) Evidence Cases and Materials (3rd edn) pp. 268–9. It is also suggested that ‘it may be possible for the criminal to cover his tracks by committing the crime in circumstances where another man with a record may be suspected’.

Law Commission (1995) Evidence and Criminal Proceedings: hearsay and related topics LCCP 138.

Law Commission (1996) Evidence in Criminal Proceedings: previous misconduct of a defendant (1996) LCCP 141.

Munday R. (1987) The Wilder Permutations of s. 1(f) of the Criminal Evidence Act, 1898. 7 LS 137, 144.

Pattenden R. (1990) Judicial Discretion in Criminal Litigation, p 259.

Report of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice. Chapter 1 para 8, recommendation 1, page 188; chapter 8 para. 29.

Tapper C. (1973) Criminal Law Revision Committee 11th Report. Character Evidence. 36 MLR 56, 57; but see the response of R. Cross (1973) Clause 3 of the Draft Criminal Evidence Bill, Research and Codification. Crim LR 400. 403–4.

Lord Taylor CJ (1996) Continuity and Change in the Criminal Law. Speech given at lung's College, London on 6 March 1996, reported at (1996) 160 JPN 190, 191.