8 Oct 2002
No material irregularity occurred under s54(1)(b); the trial judge properly assessed credibility and matters relied on by the appellant were peripheral or misread; the evidence of sustained and potentially life‑threatening violence was overwhelming and convictions are safe and must be upheld.
1 Nov 1991
Conviction quashed because the Crown failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the applicant had the requisite control of the hut on the specific date alleged; the evidence did not exclude reasonable possibilities that others controlled or guarded the hut and the case should not have been left to the jury, rendering the conviction unsafe.
14 Oct 1972
The appellate court was not satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the notebook entry was made freely and voluntarily and identified significant evidential deficits and erroneous exclusion of relevant evidence (McGuire's complaint); on the whole record the conviction was unsafe and had to be set aside.