What is the test for a trial judge to balance probative value against prejudicial effect?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Salifu, 2018 ONSC 6748 (CanLII):
The need for a trial judge to balance probative value against prejudicial effect goes back at least to the civil case of Draper v. Jacklyn, 1969 CanLII 6 (SCC), [1970] S.C.R. 92, 9 D.L.R. (3d) 264. In that case, the court held that photographs tendered before the jury at trial were inflammatory and required a new trial.
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