QLD BAR EXAM BUNDLED EXAMS WITH VIEW
AHEAD EXAM SCRIPT FOR A GUARANTEED
PASS 2026.
◍ What are the exceptions to Hearsay? Answer: Original evidence -
prove matter distinct from words, or to prove terms
◍ What is the business records exception to Hearsay? Answer: EAC
69 Hearsay rule does not apply to documents where representation
made by person with personal knowledge of asserted fact
◍ What EAC section is hearsay? Answer: EAC 59 - Definition
◍ What EAC section are hearsay exceptions? Answer: EAC 60-75
◍ What EAC section is relevance? Answer: EAC 55-56
◍ What EAC section is opinion? Answer: EAC 76
◍ What EAC section is admission? Answer: EAC 81
◍ What EAC section is general discretion to exclude? Answer: EAC
135 - prejudicial >> probative
,◍ What EAC section is exclusion of prejudicial evidence in criminal
proceedings? Answer: EAC 137 - derived from CL christie direction
◍ What EAC section is discretion to exclude for illegality? Answer:
EAC 138
◍ What EAC section is relevance? Answer: EAC 55
◍ What EAC sections govern tendency and coincidence evidence?
Answer: EAC 97-98
replaced Pfennig/Hoch at CL
◍ What EAC section allows for evidence to be given in narrative
form? Answer: EAC 29
Narrative form if so directed by the court may replace standard Q&A
system
◍ What is the Briginshaw standard? Answer: the strength of evidence
necessary to establish facts on the balance of probabilities, may
depend on the nature of what is sought to be proven.'
More serious, more stringent
EAC 140(2)
, ◍ What is legal burden of proof? Answer: Requirement of a rule of
law that a fact in issue be proved to either preponderance of evidence
or beyond reasonable doubt
◍ What is evidential burden of proof? Answer: Requirement to show
sufficient evidence to raise an issue as to existence or non existence of
a fact in issue.
Minimum threshold for raising an issue at trial
◍ Who determines decides on whether the legal and evidentiary
burdens have been met? Answer: Trier of fact decides legal burden,
judge decides evidentiary burden.
◍ What is a Fact in Issue? Answer: All facts which P must prove to
succeed at trial and which D must prove to establish defence.
◍ What is circumstantial evidence? Answer: Facts the existence of
which may infer the existence of a Fact in Issue
◍ What is the Jones v Dunkel rule? Answer: Unexplained failure to
call evidence / witness / document may lead to inference that the
missing material would not have assisted that party's case.
Applies to civil and criminal (P only)
AHEAD EXAM SCRIPT FOR A GUARANTEED
PASS 2026.
◍ What are the exceptions to Hearsay? Answer: Original evidence -
prove matter distinct from words, or to prove terms
◍ What is the business records exception to Hearsay? Answer: EAC
69 Hearsay rule does not apply to documents where representation
made by person with personal knowledge of asserted fact
◍ What EAC section is hearsay? Answer: EAC 59 - Definition
◍ What EAC section are hearsay exceptions? Answer: EAC 60-75
◍ What EAC section is relevance? Answer: EAC 55-56
◍ What EAC section is opinion? Answer: EAC 76
◍ What EAC section is admission? Answer: EAC 81
◍ What EAC section is general discretion to exclude? Answer: EAC
135 - prejudicial >> probative
,◍ What EAC section is exclusion of prejudicial evidence in criminal
proceedings? Answer: EAC 137 - derived from CL christie direction
◍ What EAC section is discretion to exclude for illegality? Answer:
EAC 138
◍ What EAC section is relevance? Answer: EAC 55
◍ What EAC sections govern tendency and coincidence evidence?
Answer: EAC 97-98
replaced Pfennig/Hoch at CL
◍ What EAC section allows for evidence to be given in narrative
form? Answer: EAC 29
Narrative form if so directed by the court may replace standard Q&A
system
◍ What is the Briginshaw standard? Answer: the strength of evidence
necessary to establish facts on the balance of probabilities, may
depend on the nature of what is sought to be proven.'
More serious, more stringent
EAC 140(2)
, ◍ What is legal burden of proof? Answer: Requirement of a rule of
law that a fact in issue be proved to either preponderance of evidence
or beyond reasonable doubt
◍ What is evidential burden of proof? Answer: Requirement to show
sufficient evidence to raise an issue as to existence or non existence of
a fact in issue.
Minimum threshold for raising an issue at trial
◍ Who determines decides on whether the legal and evidentiary
burdens have been met? Answer: Trier of fact decides legal burden,
judge decides evidentiary burden.
◍ What is a Fact in Issue? Answer: All facts which P must prove to
succeed at trial and which D must prove to establish defence.
◍ What is circumstantial evidence? Answer: Facts the existence of
which may infer the existence of a Fact in Issue
◍ What is the Jones v Dunkel rule? Answer: Unexplained failure to
call evidence / witness / document may lead to inference that the
missing material would not have assisted that party's case.
Applies to civil and criminal (P only)
