NSW Caselaw
Reported Decision : 122 A Crim R 206
New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal
CITATION : REGINA v. TANG [2001] NSWCCA 210 FILE NUMBER(S) : CCA No. 60377 of 1999 HEARING DATE(S) : Thursday 26 April 2001 JUDGMENT DATE : 28 May 2001
PARTIES : REGINA v. TANG, Choi Kia JUDGMENT OF : Spigelman CJ at 1; Wood CJ at CL at 2; Greg James J at 3
LOWER COURT JURISDICTION : Supreme Court LOWER COURT FILE NUMBER(S) : No. 70212 of 1998 LOWER COURT JUDICIAL Hidden, J. OFFICER :
COUNSEL : Crown: M.G. Sexton, SC./Ms. Baker App: S.J. Odgers, SC. SOLICITORS : Crown: S.E. O'Connor App: David Giddy & Associates CATCHWORDS : Criminal law - appeal against conviction - admissibility of ERISP - accused a child at time of interview - s.13 Children (Criminal Proceedings) Act - absence at interview of accompanying person - reasonable to admit evidence - significant possibility evidence would not have been admitted - significant possibility of acquittal - appeal upheld - new trial ordered. LEGISLATION CITED : Children (Criminal Proceedings) Act 1987 Evidence Act 1995 Stackelroth (CCA, unreported 3 April 1996) Mickelberg (1989) 167 CLR 259 Aquilina (1978) 1 NSWLR 358 Warren (1982) 2 NSWLR 360 McKellar & Booth v. Smith (1982) 2 NSWLR 950 CASES CITED: Cotton (1990) 19 NSWLR 593 Dunn (CCA, unreported 15 April 1992) H (1996) 85 A. Crim. R. 481 Phung & Huynh (Wood, CJ. at CL., unreported 26 February 2001) McKinney (1991) 171 CLR 468 Foster (1993) 113 ALR 1 DECISION : Appeal upheld; conviction and sentence quashed; new trial ordered.
We try to embed the page this law was scraped from. If the site blocks framing, you still get the link and a local excerpt.
Last checked with source on —
Checking whether the official page can be embedded…
Plain-English simplify of this law: a short summary, key points, and both sides of the argument. Generated on first view via Replicate, then cached. Vote on what helps your study.
No study brief is cached for this law yet. Sign up to generate a plain-English brief.
Sign up to generate