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Perara-Cathcart v. The Queen

Case No. A39/2016 
Case information

Lower Court Judgment

30/07/2015 Supreme Court of South Australia (Court of Criminal Appeal) (Kourakis CJ, Gray J, Stanley J)

[2015] SASCFC 103

Catchwords

Criminal law – Directions to jury – Proviso – Application of proviso – Where evidence was led at trial about the appellants drug possession – Where Court of Criminal Appeal held that evidence of the appellant’s drug possession was relevant and correctly admitted – Where a majority of the Court of Criminal Appeal held that the trial Judge failed to provide satisfactory directions regarding the permissible use of the evidence of the appellant’s drug possession – Whether the Court of Criminal Appeal correctly applied the proviso.

Short particulars

Documents

01/09/2016 Hearing (SLA, Canberra)

13/09/2016 Notice of appeal

06/10/2016 Written submissions (Appellant)

06/10/2016 Chronology (Appellant)

24/10/2016 Written submissions (Respondent)

31/10/2016 Reply

11/11/2016 Hearing (Full Court, Canberra) (Audio-visual recording)

01/03/2017 Judgment (Judgment summary)