Regina -v- HJS [2000] NSWCCA 205

New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal

CITATION : Regina -v- HJS [2000] NSWCCA 205 revised - 29/06/2000 FILE NUMBER(S) : CCA 60361/98 HEARING DATE(S) : 23/03/00 JUDGMENT DATE : 9 June 2000

PARTIES : Regina HJS JUDGMENT OF : Spigelman CJ at 1; Ireland J at 2; Simpson J at 128

LOWER COURT JURISDICTION : District Court LOWER COURT FILE NUMBER(S) : 96/21/0251 LOWER COURT JUDICIAL Grogan DCJ OFFICER :

COUNSEL : DC Frearson - Crown GP Craddock - Appellant SOLICITORS : SE O'Connor - Crown TA Murphy - Appellant CATCHWORDS : Criminal law - sexual assault upon the four daughters of the appellant under the age of 16 years - no error on the part of the trial judge in refusing application for separate trials - erroneous introduction of name of unrelated complainant, an irregularity without miscarriage of justice - whether Crown entitled to lead evidence in reply - duty of judge to give directions on consumption of alcohol, regardless of the views of counsel - Evidence of complaint, wrongly admitted under S 66 of the Evidence Act, 1995 and which may not have been admitted under S 108(3) of that Act - nevertheless no miscarriage of justice. LEGISLATION CITED : Crimes Act, 1900 Evidence Act, 1995 Maric -v- The Queen (1978) 52 ALJR 631 R -v- Marsland (NSWCCA - unreported - 17.07.91) R -v- Oliviera (NSWCCA - unreported - 26.11.93) R -v- Rich (1998) 102 A Crim R 165 Palmer -v- The Queen (1998) 193 CLR 1 R -v- Baker (1999) NSW CCA 277 - unreported. Tillick -v- The Queen (1981) 147 CLR 565 R -v- Stokes and Difford 51 A Crim R 25 CASES CITED: R -v- Clough (1992) 28 NSWLR 396 @ 407-8 Graham -v- R [1998] HCA 61; 195 CLR 606 R -v- H (1997) 92 A Crim R 168 R -v- BD (1997) 94 A Crim R 131 R -v- Shaw (1952) 85 CLR 365 R -v- Lawrence (1981) 38 ALR 1; R -v- Killick (1981) 147 CLR 565; R -v- Chin (1985) 157 CLR 671 R -v- Chaney (1991) 99 ALR 360 DECISION : Appeal dismissed.