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Ridgeway v The Queen

(1995) 184 CLR 19
JurisdictionAustralia
CourtHigh Court of Australia
Year1995
StatusBinding authority

Summary

A court has a public policy discretion to exclude evidence obtained through illegal police entrapment, including where police facilitated the very offence charged.

Key Principle

entrapment; illegal importation of heroin by police informer; public policy discretion to exclude evidence

Area of Law

criminal

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