Brown v R [2008] NSWCCA 306

New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal

CITATION: Brown v R [2008] NSWCCA 306

HEARING DATE(S): 3 November 2008

JUDGMENT DATE: 17 December 2008

JUDGMENT OF: McClellan CJ at CL at 1; Hall J at 53; Harrison J at 54

DECISION: Leave to appeal refused and appeal dismissed.

CATCHWORDS: CRIMINAL LAW - appeal and new trial and inquiry after conviction - appeal and new trial - miscarriage of justice - misdirection and non direction - whether trial judge failed to adequately direct jury in relation to identification evidence - Evidence Act 1995 s 116 - CRIMINAL LAW - appeal and new trail and inquiry after conviction - appeal and new trial - miscarriage of justice - whether trial miscarried on account of prosecutor inviting jury to consider submission "why would the victim lie?" - whether allowing the jury to consider that question reversed the onus of proof

Crimes Act 1900 LEGISLATION CITED: Evidence Act 1995 Criminal Appeal Act 1912

CATEGORY: Principal judgment

Dhanhoa v The Queen [2003] HCA 40; (2003) 217 CLR 1 Domican v The Queen [1992] HCA 13; (1992) 173 CLR 555 Gardiner v R [2006] NSWCCA 190; (2006) 162 A Crim R Palmer v The Queen [1998] HCA 2; (1998) 193 CLR 1 Papakosmas v The Queen [1999] HCA 37; (1999) 196 CLR 297 R v Clarke (1997) 97 A Crim R 414 R v Coe [2002] NSWCCA 385 at [67] CASES CITED : R v Demiroz [2003] NSWCCA 146 R v Hodge [2002] NSWCCA 10 R v Ita [2003] NSWCCA 174; (2003) 139 A Crim R 340 R v Moussa [2001] NSWCCA 427; (2001) 125 A Crim R 505 R v Villa [2005] NSWCCA 4 R v Wilson [2005] NSWCCA 20; (2005) 62 NSWLR 346 South v Regina [2007] NSWCCA 117 Trudgett v R [2008] NSWCCA 62 at [28] Zammit v R [1999] NSWCCA 65; (1999) 107 A Crim R 489