Last week the Supreme Court decided DPP v Farmer [2010] VSC 343.The police saw Mr Farmer sitting in a car parked in a bicycle lane. The headlights were on. Just after the police saw the car, the headlights went off. The police stopped behind the car and walked up to it. Mr Farmer was talking …
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Last week the Supreme Court decided DPP v Farmer [2010] VSC 343.The police saw Mr Farmer sitting in a car parked in a bicycle lane. The headlights were on. Just after the police saw the car, the headlights went off. The police stopped behind the car and walked up to it. Mr Farmer was talking …
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The most recent quiz from the Judicial College is about unfavourable witnesses and the admissibility of prior inconsistent statements. It came out a couple of months ago, but the JCV has moved a few things around on its website so I looked over it again.The authors of the quiz give as broad a definition to …
It's not for nothing that people say, when they push a piece of paper and a pen in your direction, 'sign your life away'.Korgbara v The Queen [2010] NSWCCA 176 was an appeal on sentence. The appellant claimed, and the Court of Appeal accepted, that he had signed the 'Statement of Facts' tendered to the …
It's not for nothing that people say, when they push a piece of paper and a pen in your direction, 'sign your life away'.Korgbara v The Queen [2010] NSWCCA 176 was an appeal on sentence. The appellant claimed, and the Court of Appeal accepted, that he had signed the 'Statement of Facts' tendered to the …