R v El

• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal and New Trial
  3. › Verdict unreasonable or insupportable having regard to evidence
  4. › Sexual offences committed over 40 years prior to trial
  5. › Whether verdicts open to jury where complainant maintained relationship with offender for decades
  6. › Whether amelioration of relationship rendered verdicts unreasonable
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal and New Trial
  3. › Miscarriage of justice
  4. › Failure of trial counsel to adduce evidence
  5. › Evidence of complainant's prior sexual experience
  6. › Whether failure to call evidence resulted in miscarriage of justice
  7. › Whether evidence could have materially impaired confidence in complainant's reliability
  8. › Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1978 (Qld), s 4
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal and New Trial
  3. › Fresh evidence and new evidence on appeal
  4. › Distinction between fresh evidence and new evidence
  5. › Residual discretion to receive new evidence to avoid miscarriage of justice
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Sentence
  3. › Relevant factors
  4. › Age of offender
  5. › Elderly offender
  6. › Whether sentencing judge failed to consider greater burden of imprisonment on elderly offender
  7. › Whether sentence could amount to life sentence for offender in his eighties

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