Osborne v Butler (a pseudonym)
Court of Appeal
Emerton P, McLeish and Taylor JJA
15/02/2024
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Evidence — Judgments and convictions — Civil proceedings — Uses to which criminal conviction can be put in subsequent civil proceedings — Applicant convicted of two counts of sexual penetration of a child under 16 years of age — Respondent seeking damages based on offending against her — Extent to which conviction admissible — Extent to which convicted person entitled to contest facts and seek to displace evidence of offending — Evidence Act 2008 (Vic), ss 91, 92, 178
Read the judgment here.