Seccull v The King

• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal
  3. › Conviction
  4. › Rape and associated charges
  5. › Misdirection
  6. › Evidence of complainant's distress
  7. › Whether distress evidence admissible as independent supporting evidence
  8. › Whether causal connection between distress and alleged offending
  9. › Whether temporal remoteness precluded admissibility
  10. › Evidence Act 2008 (Vic), ss 55, 56, 137
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal
  3. › Conviction
  4. › Misdirection
  5. › Distress evidence
  6. › Whether complainant's own evidence of distress capable of constituting independent supporting evidence
  7. › Whether direction to warn jury as to weight required
  8. › Paull v The Queen [2021] VSCA 339
  9. › R v Flannery [1969] VR 586
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal
  3. › Conviction
  4. › Other misconduct evidence
  5. › Relationship or context evidence
  6. › Whether evidence too remote to be admissible
  7. › Whether directions invited tendency reasoning
  8. › Jury Directions Act 2015 (Vic), ss 26, 27
  9. › Evidence Act 2008 (Vic), s 137
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal
  3. › Conviction
  4. › Jury directions
  5. › Jury Directions Act 2015 (Vic)
  6. › Whether direction given without request under s 12
  7. › Whether substantial and compelling reasons existed under s 16

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