R v Al Batat & Ors (No 22) [2020] NSWSC 1352

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: R v Al Batat & Ors (No 22) [2020] NSWSC 1352 Hearing dates: 1, 2 October 2020 Date of orders: 2 October 2020 Decision date: 08 October 2020 Jurisdiction: Common Law Before: Hamill J Decision: (1) The evidence of two identification procedures undertaken by the witness, Mr Jian Feng Weng, is inadmissible. Catchwords: CRIMINAL LAW - evidence - limits on re-examination - where witness agrees his evidence may be based on hallucination - whether prior consistent statement capable of re-establishing credibility - where jury aware of earlier consistent statement - witness with long history of psychiatric illness - where attack on credibility predictable - where evidence otherwise admissible - whether evidence ought to have been elicited in chief - probative value slight - potential for unfair prejudice - credibility evidence rejected - a sideshow on a sideshow Legislation Cited: Evidence Act 1995 (NSW), ss 39, 65, 101A, 108, 135, 137, 192 Cases Cited: R v Al Batat and Ors (No 21) [2020] NSWSC 1350 R v Denton [2019] NSWCCA 81 R v Kuzmanovic [2005] NSWSC 771 R v Polkinghorne (1999) 108 A Crim R 189; [1999] NSWSC 704 Ratten v The Queen [1972] AC 378 Category: Procedural and other rulings Parties: Regina Abdallah Hassan Al Batat Ying Cheng Luo Ian Fan Jaiyu Liu Jacob Blake Bayliss Nai An Li Representation: Counsel: P Hogan (Crown) B Rigg SC (Al Batat) R Webb (Luo) T Quilter (Fan) N Carroll (Liu) A Norrie (Bayliss) D Carroll (Li)