REGINA v GIOVANNONE [2002] NSWCCA 323

Reported Decision : 140 A Crim R 1

New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal

CITATION : REGINA v GIOVANNONE [2002] NSWCCA 323 FILE NUMBER(S) : CCA 60644/01 HEARING DATE(S) : 30 May 2002 JUDGMENT DATE : 14 August 2002

PARTIES : REGINA v Philip GIOVANNONE JUDGMENT OF : Mason P at 1; Hidden J at 128; Carruthers AJ at 129

LOWER COURT JURISDICTION : District Court LOWER COURT FILE NUMBER(S) : 98/11/0863 LOWER COURT JUDICIAL Flannery ADCJ OFFICER :

COUNSEL : Appellant: R A Bonnici Crown: D Woodburne SOLICITORS : Appellant: S Moran & Co Crown: Director of Pulbic Prosecutions CATCHWORDS : CRIMINAL LAW - appeal against conviction and sentence - perverting the course of justice - corruption - whether indictment bad in law - conduct which forms part of the course of justice - whether duplicity between the charges - whether the requisite mens rea and actus reus were open to the jury - summing up - EVIDENCE - admissibility - poor quality listening device recording - enhanced version of recording - whether enhanced copy is a 'copy' of a 'document' for the purposes of the Evidence Act 1995 - purported transcript of recording admitted on the basis of being an aide-memoire - whether admissible to prove the contents of the conversation - relationship evidence - tendency and propensity evidence - suitable directions to be given to jury - SENTENCING - subjective factors - whether full-time incarceration was appropriate - cumulative sentences - objective seriousness. Confiscation of Proceeds of Crime Act 1989 LEGISLATION CITED : Crimes Act 1900 Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 Evidence Act 1995 BRS v The Queen (1997) 191 CLR 275 Butera v Director of Public Prosecutions (Vic) (1987) 164 CLR 180 Chamberlain v The Queen (No 2) (1984) 153 CLR 521 Eastman v The Queen (1997) 76 FCR 9 M v The Queen (1994) 181 CLR 487 R v Birks (1990) 19 NSWLR 677 R v BWT [2002] NSWCCA 60 R v Chan [2002] NSWCCA 217 CASES CITED: R v Cassar; R v Sleiman [1999] NSWSC 436 R v Dellapatrona (1993) 31 NSWLR 123 R v Dillon and Riach [1982] VR 434 R v Duong (1999) 109 A Crim R 60 R v Karageorge (1998) 103 A Crim R 157 R v Travers (1957) 58 SR(NSW) 85 R v Webster and Jones, NSWCCA, unreported, 3 August 1992 Shepherd v The Queen (1990) 170 CLR 573 The Queen v Rogerson (1992) 174 CLR 268 DECISION : See par 127.