Where a police officer admits at a Royal Commission to having verballed an accused, the probative value of the police evidence at trial is destroyed, even where a second officer's evidence was not directly challenged at the Royal Commission. The 'significant possibility' test for miscarriage of justice is satisfied where the Crown case depended in part on the false police evidence and the jury may have been influenced by it in assessing the credibility of other Crown witnesses.
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