REGINA v ELLIS [2003] NSWCCA 319

Reported Decision : 58 NSWLR 700 144 A Crim R 1

New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal

CITATION : REGINA v ELLIS [2003] NSWCCA 319 revised - 27/04/2004 HEARING DATE(S) : 21 August 2003 JUDGMENT DATE : 5 November 2003

JUDGMENT OF : Spigelman CJ at 1; Sully J at 101; O'Keefe J at 102; Hidden J at 103; Buddin J at 103 DECISION : Appeal dismissed.

CATCHWORDS : EVIDENCE - tendency and coincidence - criminal trial - admissibility - multiple counts on indictment - where trial judge admitted evidence of each offence as tendency and coincidence evidence in relation to all other offences - where trial judge applied Evidence Act 1995 s 101 in terms - whether test in Pfennig v The Queen applicable - whether tendency and coincidence evidence admissible. Crimes Act 1900 ss 112, 113, 344A LEGISLATION CITED : Crimes Act 1958 (Vic) s 398A Evidence Act 1995 ss 94, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 110, 111, 135, 137, 141 Evidence Act 1997 (Qld) s 132A Conway v The Queen (2000) 98 FCR 204 Foley (unreported, NSW Court of Criminal Appeal, Gleeson CJ, Stein JA and Bruce J, 5 June 1997) Harriman v R (1989) 167 CLR 590 Hoch v The Queen (1988) 165 CLR 292 Markby v The Queen (1978) 140 CLR 108 Papakosmas v the Queen (1999) 196 CLR 297 Perry v The Queen (1982) 150 CLR 580 Pfennig v the Queen (1995) 182 CLR 461 R v AH (1997) 98 A Crim R 71 R v Andrews [2003] NSWCCA 7 R v Blick (2000) 111 A Crim R 326 R v Boardman [1975] AC 421 R v Camilleri (2001) 119 A Crim R 106 R v Colby [1999] NSWCCA 261 CASES CITED : R v Daley [2001] NSWSC 1211 R v Folbigg [2003] NSWCCA 17 R v Fordham (1997) 98 A Crim R 359 R v Holt [2001] NSWSC 232 R v Joiner [2002] NSWCCA 354 R v Le [2000] NSWCCA 49 R v Leask [1999] NSWCCA 33 R v Lock (1997) 91 A Crim R 356 R v OGD (No 2) (2000) 50 NSWLR 433 R v S [2001] QCA 501 R v Veitch [1999] NSWCCA 185 R v WRC (2002) 130 A Crim R 89 Sutton v The Queen (1984) 152 CLR 528 W v R (2001) 189 ALR 633 WK v SR (1997) 22 Fam LR 592 PARTIES : Regina Darren Douglas Ellis FILE NUMBER(S) : CCA 60764/01 COUNSEL : S J Odgers SC / H Dhanji (Appellant) R Cogswell SC / G Rowling / J Quilter (Crown) SOLICITORS : D J Humphreys (Appellant) S E O'Connor (Crown)