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)
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.
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)