Regina v J L Baartman [2000] NSWCCA 298

New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal

CITATION : Regina v J L Baartman [2000] NSWCCA 298 revised - 5/10/2000 FILE NUMBER(S) : CCA 60664/98 HEARING DATE(S) : 08/08/00 JUDGMENT DATE : 13 September 2000

PARTIES : Regina Jon Leslie Baartman JUDGMENT OF : Spigelman CJ at 1; Kirby J at 2; Smart AJ at 77

LOWER COURT JURISDICTION : Supreme Court LOWER COURT FILE NUMBER(S) : 70368/93 LOWER COURT JUDICIAL Dunford J OFFICER :

COUNSEL : T L Buddin SC (Crown) A P Cook (App) SOLICITORS : S E O'Connor (Crown) Sydney Regional Aboriginal Corp Legal Service (App) CATCHWORDS : CRIMINAL PRACTICE & PROCEDURE - Appeal against conviction - Circumstantial evidence direction - whether warning required where evidence outside categories s165(1)(a) to (g) LEGISLATION CITED : Evidence Act, 1995 - s165(1), s165(6) Peacock v The King (1911) 13 CLR 619 R v Velevski [1999] NSWCCA 96 Shepherd v The Queen (1990) 170 CLR 573 R v McIntyre [2000] NSWCCA 6 CASES CITED: R v Gary Perks (1986) 20 A Crim R 201 R v Lewis (CCA, unreported, 8 September 1998) Bromley v The Queen (1986) 161 CLR 315 Longman v The Queen (1989) 168 CLR 79 Farrell v The Queen (1998) 194 CLR 286 DECISION : Ref para 76

IN THE COURT OF

CRIMINAL APPEAL 60664/98

SPIGELMAN CJ KIRBY J SMART AJ Wednesday 13 September 2000

REGINA v Jon Leslie BAARTMAN JUDGMENT

1 SPIGELMAN CJ: I agree with Kirby J.

2 KIRBY J: Jon Leslie Baartman (the appellant) was charged with the murder of Leszic Henryck Betcher at Lugarno on 23 February 1993. Others were charged with the same murder. An order was made for separate trials. The trial of Mr Baartman took place before Dunford J and a jury, it being a retrial. The appellant was convicted on 2 November 1998. He appeals against that conviction.