69 VR 454
Seccull v The King

Published 14 November 2023

Seccull v The King

Court of Appeal

Priest AP, Niall JA and Kidd AJA

14/10/2022

[2022] VSCA 219

Criminal law — Appeal — Conviction — Sexual offences — Jury directions — Evidence of complainant’s distress — Whether direction that jury entitled to use evidence of complainant’s distress as indirect evidence supporting prosecution case — Whether jury directions impermissibly invited tendency reasoning — Evidence Act 2008 (Vic), ss 56, 137

Read the judgment here.