R v Taouk

• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Evidence
  3. › Admissions
  4. › Admissions to police
  5. › Unrecorded admissions
  6. › Whether admission made at time when accused could reasonably have been suspected of having committed an offence
  7. › Whether admission made in course of official questioning
  8. › Purposive construction of recording requirement
  9. › Criminal Procedure Act 1986 (NSW), s 281
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Evidence
  3. › Admissions
  4. › Discretion to exclude
  5. › Whether trial judge should have excluded unrecorded admissions under s 90 or s 138 of Evidence Act 1995 (NSW)
  6. › Whether only proper exercise of discretion would have been to exclude
  7. › Evidence Act 1995 (NSW), ss 90, 138
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Directions to jury
  3. › Circumstantial evidence
  4. › Expert evidence
  5. › Gunshot residue
  6. › Whether directions adequately conveyed significance of expert evidence supporting hypothesis consistent with innocence
  7. › Whether specific circumstantial evidence direction required
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal
  3. › Unreasonable verdict
  4. › Circumstantial evidence case
  5. › Whether jury acting reasonably could reject as rational inference possibility that another person fired fatal shots
  6. › Whether only rational inference was guilt of accused

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