Petch v Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW)

[2022] NSWCA 33

NSW Court of Appeal

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Catchwords

1. Courts and Judges
2. › Jurisdictional error
3. › District Court
4. › Criminal appeal from Local Court
5. › Failure to consider substantial component of defendant's case
6. › Whether failure to address significance of subject-matter of false statements constituted jurisdictional error
7. › Crimes (Appeal and Review) Act 2001 (NSW), ss 11, 18
8. › District Court Act 1973 (NSW), s 176
1. Courts and Judges
2. › Jurisdictional error
3. › District Court
4. › Criminal appeal from Local Court
5. › Expert evidence of cognitive impairment and memory loss
6. › Whether judge failed to address expert evidence
7. › Whether judge required to mention every factor or argument relied on by losing party
1. Courts and Judges
2. › Jurisdictional error
3. › District Court
4. › Criminal appeal from Local Court
5. › Burden and standard of proof
6. › Whether judge reversed onus of proof by rejecting defence evidence of cognitive impairment
7. › Whether prosecution required to prove every primary or intermediate fact beyond reasonable doubt
1. Practice and Procedure
2. › Bail
3. › Intensive correction orders
4. › Judicial review proceedings in Court of Appeal
5. › Whether stay of sentence operates
6. › Whether bail available
7. › Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), s 69C
8. › Bail Act 2013 (NSW), ss 4, 5, 61

Quick Take

A court will not readily infer a failure to apply the criminal standard of proof absent strong and clear evidence when conducting judicial review of District Court criminal appeal decisions, and a judge's rejection of defence evidence constitutes factual findings rather than a reversal of the burden of proof.