We don't get very many appellate decisions on dog bite cases, even though they are (unfortunately) relatively frequent in our Magistrates' Courts.Johnson v Buchanan [2012] VSC 195 was a judicial review under O56 rather than appeal under Criminal Procedure Act s 272, after a magistrate found a dog owner not guilty of an offence when …

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