Where second-hand hearsay evidence of an admission is highly prejudicial and there is no rational forensic explanation for defence counsel's failure to object, both the failure to object and the trial judge's failure to give a limiting direction of own motion constitute material irregularities resulting in a miscarriage of justice.
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