The Mack test.

The defence of entrapment is available when:

(a) the authorities provide a person with an opportunity to commit an offence without acting on a reasonable suspicion that this person is already engaged in criminal activity or pursuant to a bona fide inquiry;

(b) although having such a reasonable suspicion or acting in the course of a bona fide inquiry, they go beyond providing an opportunity and induce the commission of an offence.



Barnes is about (a).

1. What constitutes grounds for "a reasonable suspicion"?

2. What constitutes a "bona fide inquiry"?

(a) tells us when an providing an opportunity to commit an offence is not "random virtue testing."


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