R v Beale [2024] NSWDC 297

District Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: R v Beale [2024] NSWDC 297 Hearing dates: 19 April 2024, 05 July 2024 Date of orders: 05 July 2024 Decision date: 05 July 2024 Jurisdiction: Criminal Before: Turnbull SC DCJ Decision: Cost Certificate not granted. Catchwords: CRIME – Costs – Not Guilty Verdict – Hypothetical reasonable prosecutor – All relevant facts – Word on word – Credit – Reasonable prosecutor performing task properly should have known – Admissions – Context – Hindsight. Legislation Cited: Costs in Criminal Cases Act 1967, ss 2, 3, 3A. Criminal Procedure Act 1986, s294CB. Evidence Act 1995 (NSW), s137. Crimes Act 1900 (NSW), s61HK (5). Cases Cited: R v Martinez 2023 NSWDC 552 R v Smith (a pseudonym) 2024 NSWDC 41 The Queen and Moore [2015] NSWSC 1263 Allerton v Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW) (1991) 24 NSWLR 550 Mordaunt v Director of Public Prosecutions & Anor [2007] NSWCA 121 Beatson v R [2015] NSWCCA 17 Manley (2000) 49 NSWLR 203 Cox v R (No 2) [2017] NSWCCA 129 R v Moore [2015] NSWSC 1263 Liberato v The Queen (1985) 159 CLR 507 Category: Costs Parties: Kurtley Beale (Applicant) Rex (Respondent) Representation: Counsel: M Cunneen SC (Applicant) P Hogan(Crown) Solicitors: L MacDougall (Applicant) Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions File Number(s): 2023/00021554 Publication restriction: There is a non-publication order in relation to the name of the complainant and anything which may tend to identify her.