The Supreme Court of the Northern Territory allowed an appeal against conviction for aggravated assault, holding that the Local Court's verdict was unreasonable in a word-on-word credibility case where there was no compelling corroboration for either version of events and the presiding judge's reasons for rejecting the appellant's evidence were weak. The Court also held, in obiter, that trial counsel's unexplained failure to lead evidence of the appellant's prior good character — relevant to his credibility as a witness — constituted a miscarriage of justice that would independently have warranted allowing the appeal and remitting for rehearing. A verdict of not guilty was substituted.
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