New judgments
Fri Sep 17 2021Gibson v Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW) (No 2) [2021] NSWCA 218 - nature of the power and role of a District Court judge in deciding whether or not to submit a question of law to the Court of Criminal Appeal
Goodfellow v R[2021] VSCA 262 - "jury's understanding of the 'ommon course of human affairs' does not allow it to fill holes in the evidence by telling itself that it would be too much of a coincidence if the applicant were not involved"
Prouten v Chapman [2021] NSWCA 207 - negligence, "there is an important distinction between the credit and the demeanour of a witness"
R v Sweet [2021] QDC 216 - "Russell Jay Gould, is a resident of the United States of America. He claims to have unlocked the secrets of 'quantum grammar' and in doing so he saved America from once again becoming a colony of the United Kingdom because of a secret pre-revolution postal contract. In this way he became the 'postmaster-general of the world'. (I am not making this up.)"