The King v Kenafake

[2023] NTSC 37

Supreme Court of the Northern Territory

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For Australian Law.

1. Criminal Law
2. › Jurisdiction, practice and procedure
3. › Joinder of charges
4. › Criminal Code (NT) s 309(1) - whether charges form part of a series of offences of the same or similar conduct
5. › where legal character and components of the offences have significant degree of similarity
6. › where the offences are sufficiently similar in fact
7. › charges properly joined.
1. Criminal Law
2. › Jurisdiction, practice and procedure
3. › Application to sever indictment
4. › evidence cross-admissible between counts for tendency purposes
5. › potential prejudice may be addressed by a proper direction to the jury
6. › application dismissed.
1. HML v The Queen [2008] HCA 16; (2008) 235 CLR 334; The King v LJ [2023] NTSC 17; The Queen v O’Brien [2017] NTSC 34, applied.
1. Marcus White (Pseudonym) v R1 [2022] VSCA 27; The Queen v TJB [1998] 4 VR 621; The Queen v CC [2021] NTSC 41, distinguished.