Abstract:This article will consider the extent to which the exclusionary common law rules relating to hearsay and bad character, which existed for hundreds of years in England and Wales and still apply in Ireland, were informed by distrust of jury capabilities. The article will focus on this discrete issue, as opposed to conducting a wide-ranging critique of the relevant rules. It will be demonstrated that the rationales for the radical reform of these rules in England and Wales were partly couched in terms of increase… Show more
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