Fares v The King

• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal
  3. › Conviction
  4. › Tendency evidence
  5. › Defence adduced evidence of character and disposition of co-accused's father
  6. › Whether prosecution's use of character evidence in cross-examination and final address invited jury to engage in impermissible tendency reasoning
  7. › Whether trial judge erred in declining to direct jury not to use evidence as tendency evidence
  8. › Whether substantial miscarriage of justice
  9. › Evidence Act 2008 (Vic), s 97
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal
  3. › Sentence
  4. › Murder
  5. › Life imprisonment
  6. › Non-parole period
  7. › Youth of offender as mitigating factor
  8. › Whether judge failed to properly consider youth and maturity as mitigating factor
  9. › Whether offending motivated by vengeance or retribution
  10. › Whether judge erred in approach to standard sentence provisions
  11. › Whether sentence manifestly excessive
  12. › Sentencing Act 1991 (Vic), ss 5, 5A, 5B
  13. › Crimes Act 1958 (Vic), s 3

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