Where an accused appeals against conviction on the basis that an application for a permanent stay was wrongly refused, the standard of appellate review is a hybrid test requiring both House v The King error in the discretionary refusal and a miscarriage of justice having regard to how the trial proceeded. In historical child sexual assault cases, a complainant's inability to recall surrounding details, dates, or sequencing does not render verdicts unreasonable where the complainant's recollection of the acts constituting the offences is sufficiently clear and precise.
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