Non-disclosure of payments made by police and a police informer to a principal prosecution witness constitutes a substantial miscarriage of justice where the jury was unable to properly assess the witness's credibility. Where a conviction is quashed for non-disclosure and the accused has served almost the entirety of the non-parole period, it will be unjust to order a retrial.
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