Structure of the Act

There is an underlying structure to the Act. It’s partially represented in the flowchart in Chapter 3 of the Act. But that flowchart has 2 problems, for present purposes. One is it only covers part of the Act. Secondly, it doesn’t really capture (for me at least), the hierarchical nature of the admissibility provisions.

So the structure I prefer to approach the Act from looks like this:

• Jurisdiction
• Adducing evidence
• Admissibility
• Discretions

This, funnily enough, is how the Act is organised.