5.2 Inadmissible Evidence (the Exclusions)

5.2.1 Confession under threat, inducement, etc.: the involuntary confession's bar — the confession extracted by fear, pressure, allurement, promise, deception, or torture is inadmissible (the voluntariness's absolute condition; the constitutional backdrop — the self-incrimination bar, the torture prohibition); the retractions' root (the 5.1.1 retracted confession's scrutiny begins here). 5.2.2 Statement expressed for the purpose of compromise: the settlement's candour protected — the offers, admissions and proposals made to negotiate a compromise inadmissible (the policy: the settlement's encouragement); the concluded-and-executed settlement's different face (the executed agreement's proof as a contract). 5.2.3 Statement not recorded as witness at court: the unrecorded's weakness — the statements not taken in the court's form: the informal-and-untested statements inadmissible as testimony (the cross-examination's absence — the hearsay's logic); the recorded-elsewhere's separate conditions (5.1.9). 5.2.4 Character: the character's bar — the civil (the party's goodness-badness proving nothing); the criminal accused's character (the prosecution's bar — the propensity's unfairness; the accused's own door: the good-character evidence's opening); the victim's character (the modern protection of the sexual-offence cases' past-history); the exceptions' residue (the character IN issue — the defamation, the insanity). 5.2.5 Privileges: the protected communications — the lawyer-client (the confidence's privilege — the advocacy's foundation); the spousal (the marital communications; the testimony- compulsion bars); the state's (the official secrets; the informer's identity); the priest-penitent's lore; the doctor-patient's debates;…