R v Age

[2011] NTSC 104

Supreme Court of the Northern Territory

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1. Criminal Law
2. › EVIDENCE
3. › Admissibility of evidence regarding the accused punching or fighting with [name withheld]
4. › was it part of the closely connected events
5. › did it form part of the res gestae
6. › was it more prejudicial then probative
7. › Held it formed part of the events being properly examined in the trial
8. › evidence admitted.
1. Editing Pre-recorded Evidence of children
2. › should the questions regarding competency to give evidence be removed as irrelevant or otherwise inadmissible material
3. › Held there was no indication in s 21B (4) that pre-recorded evidence should not be on a parallel with what would ordinarily occur before the jury
4. › Held that editing was not required.
1. No case submission
2. › no case to answer for murder or manslaughter or alternatively no case to answer for manslaughter
3. › was the Crown able to prove the fatal injury was inflicted by the accused, other than by resort to impermissible speculation
4. › Crown do not need to prove the precise mechanism of death
5. › when considering a no case submission the Crown case must be taken at its highest
6. › Held there was a case to answer
7. › the case should go to the jury on murder.
1. Police Administration Act (NT) s 137, s 140

Citation[2011] NTSC 104

CourtNTSC

JurisdictionNorthern Territory

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