Wood v NSW

• 1. Torts
  2. › Malicious prosecution
  3. › Elements of the tort
  4. › Malice
  5. › Whether cumulative findings of prosecutorial misconduct and absence of reasonable and probable cause inevitably compel finding of malice
  6. › Whether prosecutor's explanations so untenable they must be rejected
  7. › A v State of New South Wales (2007) 230 CLR 500
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Standard of appellate review
  3. › Findings of fact based on credit
  4. › Demeanour-based credit findings
  5. › Whether appellate court in equal position to draw inferences
  6. › Whether findings shown to be wrong by incontrovertible facts, glaringly improbable, or contrary to compelling inferences
  7. › Fox v Percy (2003) 214 CLR 118
• 1. Torts
  2. › Malicious prosecution
  3. › Relationship between absence of reasonable and probable cause and malice
  4. › Whether absence of reasonable and probable cause necessarily gives rise to inference of malice
  5. › Whether overzealous prosecution demonstrates malice

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