Regina v Stephen John RAE (No 2) [2005] NSWCCA 380

Reported Decision : 157 A Crim R 182

New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal

CITATION: Regina v Stephen John RAE (No 2) [2005] NSWCCA 380

HEARING DATE(S): 22 & 23 September 2005

JUDGMENT DATE: 8 November 2005

JUDGMENT OF: Giles JA at 1; Hislop J at 171; Rothman J at 172

DECISION: Applications dismissed.

CATCHWORDS: Plea of guilty - application to withdraw plea - application withdrawn - conviction and sentence - appeal against conviction and sentence - conviction appeal abandoned - notice of abandonment not filed - sentence appeal dismissed - applications to prosecute conviction appeal or bring fresh appeal and to reopen sentence appeal - not necessary to decide ability to prosecute conviction appeal or bring fresh appeal - assuming conviction appeal, miscarriage of justice in reliance on plea not shown - sentence appeal could not be reopened - if it could, no ground for reopening made out - applications dismissed. D

Grierson v The King (1938) 60 CLR 431; Jones v The Queen (1989) 166 CLR 409; Lawless v The Queen (1979) 142 CLR 659; Meissner v The Queen (1995) 184 CLR 132; R v Abu-Chabake [2004] NSWCCA 356; R v Bell (1987) 8 NSWLR 311; R v Birks (1990) 19 NSWLR 677; R v Chiron (1980) 1 NSWLR 218; R v Cartwright (1989) 17 NSWLR 243; R v Davies (1993) 19 MVR 481; CASES CITED: R v Khan [2002] NSWCCA 521; R v Murphy (1965) VR 187; R v Rae [2001] NSWCCA 545; R v SL [2004] NSWCCA 397; R v Suresh (1998) 153 ALR 145; R v Reardon (No 2) (2004) 60 NSWLR 454; R v Toro-Martinez (2000) 114 A Crim R 533; R v Wilkes (2001) NSWCCA 97; Ratten v The Queen (1974) 131 CLR 131; TKWJ v The Queen (2002) 212 CLR 124; Wong v Director of Public Prosecutions [2005] NSWSC 129.