Where an accused's out-of-court statements are inconsistent with the defence hypothesis advanced at trial, those statements are relevant and admissible regardless of whether they contain lies, and a direction to disregard the lies entirely may be unduly favourable to the defence. A trial counsel's informed forensic decision not to object to evidence will ordinarily preclude the point being raised on appeal where the decision served a forensic purpose and did not deprive the accused of a chance of acquittal that was fairly open.
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