Generalised evidence of sexual attraction to young persons generally is an insufficient basis for the admission of tendency evidence, but evidence disclosing an improper sexual attraction to the particular complainant is in a different and more probative category. The judgment provides a twelve-point summary of the principles governing tendency evidence applications under the uniform evidence legislation. Where uncharged acts are admitted as context evidence but not tendency evidence, the trial judge must give clear directions, and the difficulty of crafting comprehensible directions may itself be a ground for exclusion.
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