An interlocutory appeal from a ruling on the admissibility of tendency evidence under ss 97 and 101 of the Evidence Act 2008 (Vic) is governed by the House v The King principles of appellate restraint, not by the Warren v Coombes approach of deciding the question afresh. The standard of review on a conviction appeal from such a ruling remains an open question to which different considerations may apply.
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