Where a complainant's evidence will be before the jury as tendency evidence regardless of whether a course of conduct charge proceeds, the accused does not suffer substantial injustice warranting interlocutory leave to appeal the retrospective operation of s 66B of the Crimes Act 1900 (ACT). The question whether s 66B operates retrospectively remains unresolved and can be raised on appeal from conviction.
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