R v Sexton

• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Particular offences
  3. › Offences against decency and morality
  4. › Child pornography and child exploitation material offences
  5. › Obtaining access to child pornography
  6. › Whether accused or unknown third party accessed material via remote access
  7. › Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 (SA), s 63A(1)(a), s 63A(1)(b)
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Criminal appeal
  3. › Appeal against conviction
  4. › Judge-alone trial
  5. › Adequacy of reasons
  6. › Whether trial judge required to give separate reasons for each count where evidence cross-admissible
  7. › Whether failure to give reasons on matter not in issue at trial constitutes error
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Criminal appeal
  3. › Appeal against conviction
  4. › Burden and standard of proof
  5. › Whether trial judge correctly applied onus of proof
  6. › Whether contrasting reasonable doubt with any doubt constitutes error of law
• 1. Evidence
  2. › Discreditable conduct evidence
  3. › Admissibility under s 34P of Evidence Act 1929 (SA)
  4. › Improbability reasoning distinguished from propensity reasoning
  5. › Whether trial judge complied with mandatory directions under s 34R
  6. › Whether abbreviated warning in judge-alone trial constitutes substantial miscarriage of justice
  7. › Evidence Act 1929 (SA), ss 34P, 34R

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