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PACE s.78

Section 78 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (England and Wales), which gives courts discretion to exclude prosecution evidence if its admission would have such an adverse effect on the fairness of the proceedings that it ought not to be admitted; the primary mechanism for excluding unlawfully obtained biometric evidence in UK criminal courts.

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