Abstract
Report No. 273 of the Law Commission for England and Wales proposes a new scheme for the law relating to evidence of bad character in criminal trials, and no less in the case of witnesses other than the accused than in the case of the accused himself. This article broadly welcomes the governing general principles of the proposed scheme, whilst challenging the soundness of some of the terminology recommended by the Commission, as well as its conclusions on some important, albeit more specific issues.
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