Catchwords
Criminal law – Evidence - Similar facts - Sexual crimes - "Uncharged acts" - Relevance - Admissibility - Applicability of test in Pfennig v The Queen (1995) 182 CLR 461.
Criminal law – Evidence - Similar facts - Standard of proof - Whether "uncharged acts" must be proved beyond reasonable doubt - Directions to jury.
Practice and procedure – Application to amend notice of appeal - Whether leave should be granted to amend notice of appeal to raise issue of admissibility of evidence, to which no objection was taken at trial.
Words and phrases – "context", "guilty passion", "propensity evidence", "relationship evidence", "relevance", "similar fact evidence", "uncharged acts".
Evidence Act 1929 (SA) – ss 34CA, 34I.