Weiss v The Queen

[2005] HCA 81
Judgment date
Case number
M50/2005
Before
Gleeson CJ, Gummow, Kirby, Hayne, Callinan, Heydon JJ
Catchwords

Criminal Law – Appeal - Application of "proviso" that no substantial miscarriage of justice has actually occurred - Appellant convicted of murder - Evidence led at trial that should not have been adduced - Appellant appealed against conviction - Appeal court to review the whole case - Utility of reference to what a jury, the actual trial jury or a hypothetical reasonable jury, would have done.

Words and phrases – "proviso", "substantial miscarriage of justice", "substantial miscarriage of justice has actually occurred".

Crimes Act 1958 (Vic) – s 568(1).

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