R v Lahai

• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal and new trial
  3. › Particular grounds of appeal
  4. › Misdirection and non-direction
  5. › Significant forensic disadvantage direction
  6. › Whether delay caused significant forensic disadvantage
  7. › Whether clothing would have been available for forensic examination regardless of delay
  8. › Evidence Act 1977 (Qld), s 132BA
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal and new trial
  3. › Verdict unreasonable or insupportable having regard to evidence
  4. › Credibility and reliability of complainant
  5. › Inconsistencies in preliminary complaint evidence
  6. › Absence of DNA evidence linking appellant
  7. › Lies told in consciousness of guilt
  8. › Whether jury acting rationally ought to have entertained reasonable doubt
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal and new trial
  3. › Appeal against sentence
  4. › Grounds for interference
  5. › Sentence manifestly excessive or inadequate
  6. › Serious violent offence declaration
  7. › Whether declaration rendered sentence manifestly excessive
  8. › Whether sentence unreasonable or plainly unjust

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