Abstract
The controversy surrounding entrapment and covert policing operations and the admissibility of the evidence they produce has been reignited by the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Teixeira de Castro v Portugal and its interpretation in a number of English cases. This article offers an examination of the cases and offers a principled approach. Drawing on the decision of the Canadian Supreme Court in Mack, it proposes a more structured and coherent scheme to regulate the authorisation and conduct of entrapment operations and remedies for abuses of entrapment.
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