| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2006] All ER (D) 63 (Oct) |
| Court: | Court of Appeal, Criminal Division |
| Judge: | Rix LJ, Dobbs J and Sir Charles Mantell |
| Representation | C Geeson (assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals) for the defendant. |
| Jonathan Straw (instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service) for the Crown. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 3 October 2006 |
Catchwords
Criminal evidence - Expert evidence - Admissibility - Expert evidence as to witnesses reliability - Paediatrician giving evidence of reliability of autistic witness' - Whether conviction unsafe.
The Case
In a case where the defendant was convicted of acts of sexual misconduct on a young autistic victim, the judge had been entitled to admit expert evidence of a general nature which had concluded that autistic persons were unlikely to fabricate a story. The trial had not been rendered unfair by the failure to exclude such evidence.
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