Application seeking record of interview not admissible
› interview between police officers and the defendant
› guidelines to police officers interviewing aboriginal persons
› Police Standing Orders
› role of a prisoner’s friend
› caution
› understanding of the English language
› statements to police were voluntary
› weather unfairness to defendant
› no impropriety in behaviour of police
› voluntary admission not rendered unreliable
› no unfairness to defendant
› interview is admissible.
Evidence Act 1939 (NT), s 26L; Police Administration Act 1978 (NT), s 137.
R v Anunga [1905] ArgusLawRp 116; (1976) 11 ALR 412; Collins v The Queen [1924] ArgusLawRp 98; (1980) 31 ALR 25; R v Lee [1950] HCA 25; (1950) 82 CLR 133; R v Weetra [1993] NTSC 103; (1993) 93 NTR 8; R v [name withheld]; Pavic v The Queen [1998] HCA 1; (1998) 192 CLR 159; Van der Meer v The Queen [1988] HCA 56; (1998) 62 ALJR 656, cited.
