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2009-07-05

80. Ultimate issue and common knowledge rules abolished

80. Ultimate issue and common knowledge rules abolished

Evidence of an opinion is not inadmissible only because it is about-

(a) a fact in issue or an ultimate issue; or

(b) a matter of common knowledge.


In R v Nguyen (Ruling No 1) [2010] VSC 438 evidence of the effect of amphetamine use was allowed, over an objection that such evidence was 'common-sense'.

While experts may be the source of such evidence, s 144 provides a wide ambit for a court to inform itself of matters of common knowledge provided it advises the parties of its intention to do so (see the commentary at s 144).

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