NSW Caselaw
Supreme Court New South Wales
Medium Neutral Citation: R v Green (No 9) [2021] NSWSC 1318 Hearing dates: 5-9; and 12-16 July; 20-24 and 27-30 September; 1 and 5-8 October 2021 Date of orders: 8 October 2021 Decision date: 08 October 2021 Jurisdiction: Common Law Before: Campbell J Decision: The evidence relating to the events of 29 October 2017 is not admissible as tendency evidence Catchwords: EVIDENCE – special hearing – murder – where deceased stabbed three times to neck and back – wholly circumstantial case – Crown application to tender tendency evidence admitted on voir dire – where tendency evidence goes to identity of accused – previous 'stabbing' committed by accused – low degree of similarity – probative value not significant – unfair prejudice to accused not outweighed Legislation Cited: Evidence Act 1995 (NSW) ss 97, 101 Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020 (NSW) ss 28, 59 Cases Cited: Hughes v The Queen (2017) 263 CLR 338; [2017] HCA 20 IMM v The Queen (2016) 257 CLR 300; [2016] HCA 14 TL v R [2020] NSWCCA 265 Texts Cited: Nil Category: Procedural rulings Parties: Regina (Crown) Jesse Leigh Green (Accused) Representation: Counsel: B. Costello (Crown) S. Bouveng (Accused)
Solicitors: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Crown) Rice More & Gibson Solicitors (Accused) File Number(s): 2018/106348 Publication restriction: Nil
We try to embed the page this law was scraped from. If the site blocks framing, you still get the link and a local excerpt.
Last checked with source on —
Checking whether the official page can be embedded…
Plain-English simplify of this law: a short summary, key points, and both sides of the argument. Generated on first view via Replicate, then cached. Vote on what helps your study.
No study brief is cached for this law yet. Sign up to generate a plain-English brief.
Sign up to generate