A [name withheld] identification warning is not required where the identity of the accused is not in dispute and the issue is whether the witness correctly described the conduct of the identified person. Where the dispute concerns what the identified person did rather than who the person was, the case falls outside the [name withheld] framework and is more analogous to [name withheld] v The Queen. An imprecise description of an offence on an Information does not vitiate a conviction where the course of the trial would not have changed and no prejudice was caused.
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