A trial judge in a judge-alone sexual offence trial is not required to separately and expressly address reliability as distinct from credibility where the defence case is essentially one of fabrication rather than honest mistake. Where the defence denies any relevant conduct occurred, the scope for a separate reliability inquiry is limited because the inconsistencies do not raise any real possibility that innocent conduct was confused for sexual offending. A trial judge is not required to finally resolve all conflicting evidence as a precondition to conviction but may be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt on the totality of the evidence.
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