Part III Other Provisions about Evidence in Criminal Proceedings
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30 Expert reports.
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An expert report shall be admissible as evidence in criminal proceedings, whether or not the person making it attends to give oral evidence in those proceedings.
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If it is proposed that the person making the report shall not give oral evidence, the report shall only be admissible with the leave of the court.
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For the purpose of determining whether to give leave the court shall have regard—
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to the contents of the report;
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to the reasons why it is proposed that the person making the report shall not give oral evidence;
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to any risk, having regard in particular to whether it is likely to be possible to controvert statements in the report if the person making it does not attend to give oral evidence in the proceedings, that its admission or exclusion will result in unfairness to the accused or, if there is more than one, to any of them; and
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to any other circumstances that appear to the court to be relevant.
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An expert report, when admitted, shall be evidence of any fact or opinion of which the person making it could have given oral evidence.
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In this section “expert report” means a written report by a person dealing wholly or mainly with matters on which he is (or would if living be) qualified to give expert evidence.
31 Form of evidence and glossaries.
For the purpose of helping members of juries to understand complicated issues of fact or technical terms F2Criminal Procedure Rules may make provision—
a
as to the furnishing of evidence in any form, notwithstanding the existence of admissible material from which the evidence to be given in that form would be derived; and
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as to the furnishing of glossaries for such purposes as may be specified;
in any case where the court gives leave for, or requires, evidence or a glossary to be so furnished.
I132 Evidence through television links F22when witness abroad: service courts.
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This section applies only so far as provided by an order under paragraph 8 of Schedule 13.
C1C21
A person other than the accused may give evidence through a live television link F3in proceedings to which subsection (1A) below applies if—
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but evidence may not be so given without the leave of the court.
C5F51A
This subsection applies—
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to trials on indictment, appeals to the criminal division of the Court of Appeal and hearings of references under F6section 9 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1995; and
b
to proceedings in youth courts F7, appeals to the Crown Court arising out of such proceedings and hearings of references under section 11 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1995 so arising.
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A statement made on oath by a witness outside the United Kingdom and given in evidence through a link by virtue of this section shall be treated for the purposes of section 1 of the M1Perjury Act 1911 as having been made in the proceedings in which it is given in evidence.
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32A Video recordings of testimony from child witnesses.
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F2033 Evidence of persons under 14 in committal proceedings.
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34 Abolition of requirement of corroboration for unsworn evidence of children.
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Any requirement whereby at a trial on indictment it is obligatory for the court to give the jury a warning about convicting the accused on the uncorroborated evidence of a child is abrogated F14. . ..
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Unsworn evidence admitted by virtue of F15 section 56 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 may corroborate evidence (sworn or unsworn) given by any other person.