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Provisional relevance

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Chapter 3Admissibility of evidence
Part 3.1Relevance

57 Provisional relevance

(1)

If the determination of the question whether evidence adduced by a party is relevant depends on the court making another finding (including a finding that the evidence is what the party claims it to be), the court may find that the evidence is relevant:

(a)

if it is reasonably open to make that finding; or

(b)

subject to further evidence being admitted at a later stage of the proceeding that will make it reasonably open to make that finding.

(2)

Without limiting subsection (1), if the relevance of evidence of an act done by a person depends on the court making a finding that the person and one or more other persons had, or were acting in furtherance of, a common purpose (whether to effect an unlawful conspiracy or otherwise), the court may use the evidence itself in determining whether the common purpose existed.

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Evidence Act 1995 s 57 — Provisional relevance (Commonwealth) — Barrister AI