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R v Lambert [2001] 3 WLR (HL) - Article 6(2) - HRA.

- presumption of innocence.
- whether legal (or persuasive) burden or evidential burden.
1) where matters in a statutory defence are part of the offence (or are a riposte to a prima facie offence) only the "evidential burden" is on D.
2) evidential burden is not slight or illusory - practical effect, in most cases, minimal.

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