REGINA v VAN DYK [2000] NSWCCA 67

New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal

CITATION : REGINA v VAN DYK [2000] NSWCCA 67 FILE NUMBER(S) : CCA 60731/98 HEARING DATE(S) : 11 August 1999 JUDGMENT DATE : 17 March 2000

PARTIES : Shane Hermanus VAN DYK - Appellant REGINA - Respondent JUDGMENT OF : Meagher JA at 1; Simpson J at 2; Smart AJ at 8

LOWER COURT JURISDICTION : District Court LOWER COURT FILE NUMBER(S) : 97/21/1275 LOWER COURT JUDICIAL Naughton DCJ OFFICER :

COUNSEL : S J Odgers - Appellant R D Ellis - Crown Respondent SOLICITORS : T A Murphy - Appellant S E O'Connor - Crown Respondent CATCHWORDS : Criminal Law - sexual offences - admissibility of contents of document when it cannot be found and goes to more than credit - admissibility of evidence going to complainant's conduct and attitude towards accused - leaving of alternative verdicts of carnal knowledge - correct construction of Ss.61D, 61G and 78 of Crimes Act - directions as to complaint, need for direction that delay prejudiced accused - no danger of tendency reasoning - unique case where accused denied acts of indecency or intercourse but admitted other consensual intercourse, alternative case of consent not put - admissibility of "look of wanting" and exclusion - competence of trial counsel - sufficient evidence to support verdicts. LEGISLATION CITED : Crimes Act 1900 Evidence Act 1995 Papakosmas v The Queen (1999) 73 ALJR 274 CASES CITED: R v PKS, CCA, unreported 1 October 1998 R v Harvey CCA, unreported 11 December 1996 R v Graham (1998) 102 A Crim R 438. DECISION : Appeal allowed; convictions quashed. New trial ordered on Counts 3,4,5,7 (alternative verdict), 8 and 9 (alternative verdict).