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Does innocent until proven guilty and beyond a reasonable doubt apply to UK criminal law?


It is right there in the section linked from the article:

(3) For the purposes of this section a person shall be taken to have shown that he was not in possession of a key to protected information at a particular time if— (a)sufficient evidence of that fact is adduced to raise an issue with respect to it; and (b)the contrary is not proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

... which makes me sad that misinformation is being used to fight a good cause.




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