Where a charge of suborning perjury is based on the accused procuring a witness to deny the accused's participation in an offence, and the Crown case requires proof that the denial was objectively false, an acquittal on the substantive offence renders a conviction on the subornation count inconsistent and unsustainable. The standard direction to consider counts separately may be misleading where a finding on one count is a logical precondition to a finding on another.
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