BCM v The Queen

Criminal law – Appeal – Appeal against conviction – Whether verdict unreasonable or unsupported having regard to evidence – Indecent dealing with child under 12 years – Inconsistencies in evidence of child complainant – Whether inconsistencies affected reliability – Whether inconsistencies went to essential features of complainant's account of offences.

Criminal law – Reasons – Whether Court of Appeal gave sufficient reasons – Whether Court of Appeal's reasons disclosed assessment of capacity of evidence to support verdict – Obligation to give reasons not discharged by observation that jury entitled to accept evidence of complainant.

Words and phrases – "unsafe and unsatisfactory", "verdict cannot be supported having regard to the evidence", "verdict is unreasonable".

Criminal Code (Q) – ss 210, 668E(1).