In multi-complainant child sexual abuse cases where the prosecution establishes an underlying unity of scheme and system, evidence of each complainant's experience is cross-admissible on all other counts, and the joinder of all counts in a single Information is proper. The Moorov principle applies such that each victim's ability to describe the common framework of the offender's scheme provides corroboration of other victims' evidence, even without striking similarity between the individual sexual acts. Differing verdicts on counts involving the same complainant are not necessarily inconsistent where the acquittals can be explained by the distinction between credibility and reliability — a jury may accept a complainant as credible but not be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt of the reliability of evidence on a particular count. Jones v The Queen (1997) 191 CLR 439 did not establish any new principle requiring additional directions where acquittals and convictions are returned on counts involving the same complainant.
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