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The Queen v. Dickman

Case No. M162/2016

Case information

Lower Court Judgment

23/11/2015 Supreme Court of Victoria (Court of Appeal) (Whelan, Priest JJA & Croucher AJA)

[2015] VSCA 311

Catchwords

Criminal law – Evidence – Identification Evidence – Where respondent was identified using a photoboard – Evidence Act 2008 (Vic) – Where respondent was convicted of intentionally causing serious injury and making a threat to kill – Where Court of Appeal by majority quashed conviction and ordered a new trial – Whether Court of Appeal erred in in holding that the trial judge erred in failing to exercise discretion to exclude identification evidence.

Short particulars

Documents

18/11/2016 Hearing (SLA, Melbourne)

02/12/2016 Notice of appeal

23/12/2016 Written submissions (Appellant)

23/12/2016 Chronology (Appellant)

27/01/2017 Written submissions (Respondent)

10/02/2016 Reply

06/04/2017 Hearing (Full Court, Canberra) (Audio-visual recording)

21/06/2017 Judgment (Judgment summary)