Colquhoun v R

• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal against conviction
  3. › Judge-alone trial
  4. › Unreasonable verdict
  5. › Whether conviction supported by evidence
  6. › Circumstantial case
  7. › Arson
  8. › Whether house destroyed by bushfire or deliberately set alight
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal against conviction
  3. › Dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception
  4. › Whether trial judge's findings on individual counts supported by evidence
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal against conviction
  3. › Fresh evidence on appeal
  4. › Whether evidence available at time of trial
  5. › Whether failure to admit would give rise to miscarriage of justice
  6. › Criminal Appeal Act 1912 (NSW), ss 5, 6
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal against conviction
  3. › Incompetence of counsel
  4. › Whether counsel unprepared and failed to obtain critical evidence
  5. › Refusal to waive privilege

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