In a multi-count drug supply trial where evidence on different counts is overlapping and cross-admissible, the Crown's circumstantial case will ordinarily be characterised as a 'strands in a cable' case rather than a 'links in a chain' case, and no Shepherd direction requiring intermediate facts to be proved beyond reasonable doubt is required, provided an adequate anti-tendency direction is given. The test for whether a fact is 'indispensable' is whether, absent evidence of that fact, there would nonetheless be a case to go to the jury.
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