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Terrorism Bill

I am sorry to come back on that, but I understand that as a general rule when a specific defence is provided, as it is in subsection (7), the burden is on the defendant to prove his defence on the balance of probabilities. However, there are occasions—under the Terrorism Act 2000, for example—where that burden is reduced to an evidential burden; that is, as long as evidence is produced sufficient to raise it as an issue, it then becomes a burden on the prosecution to disprove that defence beyond a reasonable doubt.