What is the impact of the evidence of the complainant's defence against the Complainant on the allegation of sexual assault?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v Ounpuu, 2019 BCSC 904 (CanLII):
I say that notwithstanding that I considered it necessary to give somewhat less weight to his evidence about the intercourse at the stage when he and the Complainant were facing in the same direction, which I did under the Browne v. Dunn analysis above, because his counsel did not cross-examine the Complainant on that one point.
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