Pell v. The Queen
Case No.
M112/2019
Case Information
Lower Court Judgment
21/08/2019 Supreme Court of Victoria (Court of Appeal) (Ferguson CJ, Maxwell P & Weinberg JA)
Catchwords
Criminal law – Unreasonable verdicts – Where applicant convicted of sexual offences against two child complainants – Where Crown case relied on evidence of one complainant and the other complainant deceased - Whether Court of Appeal majority erred by finding that their belief in complainant required applicant to establish that offending was impossible to raise and leave reasonable doubt – Whether majority erred in concluding that verdicts not unreasonable as, in light of findings made by them, there remained reasonable doubt as to existence of any opportunity for offending to have occurred.
Documents
17/09/2019 Application for special leave to appeal
13/11/2019 Determination (SLA, Canberra)
03/01/2020 Written submissions (Applicant)
03/01/2020 Chronology (Applicant)
31/01/2020 Written submissions (Respondent)
19/02/2020 Further written submissions (Applicant)
20/02/2020 Reply
26/02/2020 Further written submissions (Respondent)
11/03/2020 Hearing (Full Court, Canberra) (Audio-visual recording)
11/03/2020 Outline of oral argument (Applicant)
11/03/2020 Outline of oral argument (Respondent)
12/03/2020 Hearing (Full Court, Canberra) (Audio-visual recording)
13/03/2020 Applicant's note regarding sections 4A, 44F and 44G of the Jury Directions Act 2015
16/03/2020 Respondent's note
07/04/2020 Judgment (Judgment summary)