The presumption of innocence is one of the bedrock principles of the Australian legal system. In fact, near-universal support for the principle that a person is innocent until proven guilty can be observed as widely as sixth century Roman law, the Jewish Talmud, Islamic Hadith, and the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
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