CH v R [2014] NSWCCA 119

Court of Criminal Appeal Supreme Court New South Wales Medium Neutral Citation: CH v R [2014] NSWCCA 119 Hearing dates: 3 April 2014 Decision date: 04 July 2014 Before: Bathurst CJ at [1]; Hoeben CJ at CL at [170]; Adams J at [171] Decision: Appeal dismissed Catchwords: CRIMINAL - conviction - evidence - whether verdict unreasonable on evidence - jury's rejection of complainant's evidence on other counts - whether evidence for counts the appellant was convicted on had distinguishing features from evidence for other counts - advantage of the jury in seeing and hearing evidence

EVIDENCE - admissibility - whether appellate court should view tapes not in evidence at trial Legislation Cited: Crimes Act 1900 (NSW), s 66EA Criminal Appeal Act 1912 (NSW), s 6 Jury Act 1977 (NSW), s 55F Cases Cited: Dungay v R; R v Dungay [2010] NSWCCA 82 Gilbert v The Queen [2000] HCA 15; (2000) 201 CLR 414 HML v The Queen [2008] HCA 16; (2008) 235 CLR 334 Libke v The Queen [2007] HCA 30; (2007) 230 CLR 559 M v The Queen [1994] HCA 63; (1994) 181 CLR 487 MacKenzie v The Queen [1996] HCA 35; (1996) 190 CLR 348 MFA v The Queen [2002] HCA 53; (2002) 213 CLR 606 R v Markuleski [2001] NSWCCA 290; (2001) 52 NSWLR 82 R v TK [2009] NSWCCA 151; (2009) 74 NSWLR 299 SKA v The Queen [2011] HCA 13; (2011) 243 CLR 400 Still v R [2010] NSWCCA 131 Category: Principal judgment Parties: CH (Appellant) Crown (Respondent) Representation: Counsel: G A Brady / P Afshar (Appellant) S Dowling SC (Crown) Solicitors: Nyman Gibson Stewart (Appellant) Solicitor for Public Prosecutions (Crown) File Number(s): 2011/376708 Publication restriction: Non publication order of the names of the complainant and accused and any information identifying them Decision under appeal Jurisdiction: 9101 Date of Decision: 2013-03-26 00:00:00 Before: Haesler J File Number(s): 2011/376708