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Evidence Evidence

Scotland

  1. 16Uncontroversial evidence.
  2. 17Exceptions to the rule that hearsay evidence is inadmissible.
  3. 18Admissibility of prior statements of witnesses.
  4. 19Statements by accused.
  5. 20. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  6. 21Evidence of biological material.
  7. 22Routine evidence.
  8. 23Proof of custody of productions.
  9. 24Evidence of criminal record and character of accused.
  10. 25Evidence as to controlled drugs and medicinal products.
  11. 26Evidence as to time and place of video surveillance recordings.
  12. 27Evidence in relation to fingerprints.
  13. 28Evidence in relation to sexual offences.
  14. 29Proof of previous convictions.

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1

Act repealed (S.)(1.4.1996, except ss. 20(3)(5), 66) by 1995 c. 40, ss. 4, 6, 7(2), Sch. 3 Pt. II paras. 16(3), 17, Sch. 5; the repeal having effect in relation to s. 20(3)(5) on 1.4.1997 by virtue of 1995 c. 40, ss. 4, 6, Sch. 3 Pt. II para. 17, Sch. 5; 1995 c. 36, s. 105(4), Sch. 4 para. 60; S.I. 1996/3201, art. 3(7) and in relation to s. 66 on 1.8.1997 by virtue of 1997 c. 48, s. 62(1)(2), Sch. 1 para. 16, Sch. 3; S.I. 1997/1712, art. 3, Sch.