12 Jul 1989
THE QUEEN v. PETER BERND BECKERS
- Citation
- THE QUEEN v. PETER BERND BECKERS
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC518/1988
The trial judge's direction regarding the accountant's schedules and s.21 evidence was unclear and inadequate: he either impermissibly withdrew admissible evidence or failed to instruct the jury how to treat it as corroboration, producing an unsafe conviction; therefore the Court allowed the appeal, quashed the convictions and set aside the sentences, ordering a retrial and declining to apply the proviso.