What is the difference between a police statement and a SCAN statement?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v Gayola, 2016 ONSC 974 (CanLII):
The trial judge went on to justify this finding by the fact that counsel “never asked which version was true” (the police statement or the SCAN statement). This question was not necessary. LW had adopted her statement to police as true and the SCAN statement had been adopted by her as true pursuant to S. 715.1 (R v. F.(C.C.), supra at paras. 30-44). On that basis, her evidence could not have led to a conviction against the appellant.
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