Evidence admitted under s 93A of the Evidence Act 1977 (Qld) will rarely be excluded under ss 98 or 130 merely because it is said to be unreliable, as unreliability goes to weight not admissibility. A limited scope of cross-examination of a child witness that is self-imposed for tactical reasons does not establish unfairness warranting exclusion. The [name withheld] direction about the treatment of an accused's evidence is a direction about the onus of proof, not a mandatory sequential reasoning path; in cases where the salient issue is the believability of the complainant, a trial judge may reason by reference to the complainant's evidence and need not separately articulate reasons for rejecting the accused's bare denial.
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