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The Attorney General v Beverley Rose Colley

The Royal Court admitted only limited hearsay in a child-abuse prosecution, excluding most witness statements as overly broad, irrelevant, or unfairly prejudicial.

  • Hearsay admissibility
  • Complaint evidence
  • Previous statements of witnesses
  • Exclusion of unfair evidence
  • Hearsay-admissibility
  • Complaint-evidence
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Criminal law [2025] JRC 333

AG v Du Maurier (Royal Court : Hearing

AG v Du Maurier (Royal Court : Hearing (Criminal) : Bailhache, W) [2025] JRC 333 (8 December 2025)

The Royal Court of Jersey held that evidence of coercive and controlling behaviour was admissible as relevant evidence, not bad character evidence, in a perverting the course of justice case.

  • Bad character evidence
  • Admissibility of evidence
  • Perverting the course of justice
  • Coercive and controlling behaviour
  • Bad-character-evidence
  • Admissibility-of-evidence
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Criminal law [2024] JRC 251

AG v N

AG v N [2024] JRC 251 (18 November 2024)

Pre-trial ruling on hearsay in a domestic abuse prosecution. Res gestae statements from a 999 call and body-worn video were admitted; the complainant’s later statement was excluded.

  • Hearsay
  • Res gestae
  • Admissibility of evidence
  • Domestic abuse
  • Fair trial rights
  • Res-gestae
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Criminal law [2024] JRC 225

AG v Pounds

AG v Pounds [2024] JRC 225 (22 October 2024)

The Royal Court granted the Crown’s application for special measures, allowing a distressed eyewitness to give evidence by video link under Jersey law.

  • Special measures
  • Witness eligibility
  • Video link evidence
  • Special-measures
  • Witness-eligibility
  • Video-link-evidence
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Criminal law [2024] JRC 067

AG v Porter

AG v Porter [2024] JRC 067 (25 March 2024)

The court admitted a child witness’s hearsay account after finding, under Article 64 of the Jersey law, that admission was in the interests of justice.

  • Hearsay evidence
  • Admissibility of child witness statements
  • Interests of justice
  • Police procedures and criminal evidence (jersey) law 2003
  • Hearsay-evidence
  • Child-witnesses
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Criminal law [2024] JRC 060

AG v Canavan

AG v Canavan [2024] JRC 060 (15 March 2024)

The Royal Court admitted a late expert report explaining coded text and Facebook messages as drug-related, finding no real prejudice to the defendant.

  • Admissibility of expert evidence
  • Late applications
  • Drug-related offences
  • Interpretation of coded messages
  • Admissibility-of-expert-evidence
  • Late-applications
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Criminal law [2024] JRC 045

AG v Maher

AG v Maher [2024] JRC 045 (23 February 2024)

The Royal Court refused the Crown’s late application to admit evidence of two earlier drug parcels as bad character evidence, finding unfair prejudice and trial disruption.

  • Bad character evidence
  • Admissibility of evidence
  • Drug importation
  • Fair trial rights
  • Bad-character-evidence
  • Evidence-admissibility
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Criminal law [2024] JRC 029

AG v Connor

AG v Connor [2024] JRC 029 (05 February 2024)

The Royal Court admitted evidence of the defendant’s prior lies to police, finding they showed a propensity to be untruthful and were relevant to the central issue at trial.

  • Admissibility of bad character evidence
  • Propensity to untruthfulness
  • Fair trial rights
  • Bad-character-evidence
  • Propensity-to-be-untruthful
  • Criminal-evidence
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Criminal law [2024] JRC 039

AG v Y

AG v Y [2024] JRC 039 (24 January 2024)

Pre-trial criminal ruling allowing a witness’s ABE interview to be played as evidence in chief, relying on witness eligibility or the court’s discretion.

  • Witness evidence
  • Special measures
  • Mental health
  • Video evidence
  • Vulnerable witnesses
  • Witness-evidence
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Criminal law [2023] JRC 082

In the matter of an application for a Production Order against a Company

In the matter of an application for a Production Order against a Company [2023] JRC 082 (07 March 2023)

The Royal Court of Jersey granted a production order for electronic devices and access codes, subject to amendments limiting scope and safeguards for legal privilege.

  • Production orders
  • Legal professional privilege
  • Electronic evidence
  • Criminal investigation
  • Statutory interpretation
  • Production-orders
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