An alibi is one of the most powerful defences available in a criminal case. The principle is simple: if you were somewhere else when the offence occurred, you could not have committed it.

In a criminal trial, decisions are supposed to be based on evidence presented in court. However, there are limited situations where a judge can rely on facts that were not formally proven. This is known as judicial notice. Judicial notice allows a judge to accept certain facts without requiring evidence, but only in narrow circumstances. These are facts that are either widely known or can be easily verified using reliable sources. Problems arise when a judge goes beyond these

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