REGINA v HANNES [2000] NSWCCA 503

Reported Decision : [2000] 158 FLR 359 [2000] 36 ACSR 72

New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal

CITATION : REGINA v HANNES [2000] NSWCCA 503 FILE NUMBER(S) : CCA 60600/99; 60508/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 30 October 2000 31 October 2000 JUDGMENT DATE : 1 December 2000

PARTIES : Regina Simon Gautier Hannes JUDGMENT OF : Spigelman CJ at 1; Studdert J at 397; Dowd J at 485

LOWER COURT JURISDICTION : District Court LOWER COURT FILE NUMBER(S) : 97/11/0562 97/11/0502 LOWER COURT JUDICIAL Backhouse DCJ OFFICER :

COUNSEL : D F Jackson QC/M Wigney (Appellant) T Game SC/ D Hammerschlag (Crown) SOLICITORS : Phillips Fox (Appellant) Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (Crown) CATCHWORDS : CRIMINAL LAW - summing up - adequacy and fairness - CRIMINAL LAW - non-consensual verdict - EVIDENCE - handwriting opinion evidence - Evidence Act 1995, ss55 and 56 - EVIDENCE - hearsay - "intended" representation, Evidence Act 1995, s59 - CRIMINAL LAW - direction given when accused does not give evidence - "Weissensteiner direction" - Evidence Act 1995, s20 Corporations Law Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) Criminal Appeal Act 1912 (NSW) LEGISLATION CITED : Criminal Procedure Act 1986 (NSW) Evidence Act 1898 (NSW) Evidence Act 1995 Financial Transaction Reports Act 1988 (Cth) Jury Act 1977 (NSW) Adami v The Queen (1959) 108 CLR 605 Butera v Director of Public Prosecutions for the State of Victoria (1987) 164 CLR 180 Cleland v The Queen (1982) 151 CLR 1 Connell v The Queen (No 6) (1992) 12 WAR 133 Domican v The Queen (1991-1992) 173 CLR 555 Jones v Dunkel (1958-1959) 101 CLR 298 KBT v The Queen (1996-1997) 191 CLR 417 Lee v The Queen (1998) 195 CLR 594 M v The Queen (1994) 181 CLR 487 Papakosmas v The Queen (1999) 196 CLR 297 Pollitt v The Queen (1991-1992) 174 CLR 558 R v Black (1993) 179 CLR 44 R v Browne-Kerr [1990] VR 78 R v Casey (1926) 26 SR (NSW) 189 CASES CITED: R v Fowler [2000] NSWCCA 142 R v Guerin [1967] 1 NSWR 255 R v Holden [1974] 2 NSWLR 548 R v Hong Jus Ten and Eng Chin Ei (Western Australian Court of Criminal Appeal, 6 November 1972, unreported) R v Ives [1973] QdR 128 R v OGD (1997) 45 NSWLR 744 R v Piazza (1997) 94 ACrimR 459 R v Sorlie (1925) 25 SR (NSW) 532 R v Zorad (1990) 19 NSWLR 91 RPS v The Queen (2000) 74 ALJR 449 Shepherd v The Queen (1990) 170 CLR 573 Spies v The Queen (2000) 74 ALJR 1263 Stoddart's case (1909) 2 CrAppR 217 Walton v The Queen (1988-1989) 166 CLR 283 Weissensteiner v The Queen (1993) 178 CLR 217 DECISION : 1 Appeal allowed; 2 Convictions quashed; 3 There be a new trial on all counts; 4 Crown appeal dismissed.