23 Dec 1999
The Court held the sentencing judge correctly adopted a starting point reflecting that extreme violence was reasonably foreseeable from the appellant's prominent role in a planned daytime wages robbery; the appellant's lack of knowledge of a firearm did not render the starting point excessive and the sentence was upheld.
19 Jul 1991
Given the applicant's admissions that he made and discarded the forged stamps and the forensic linkage between the seized stamps and the impressions in passports found in his possession, the trial judge was entitled to disbelieve the conflicting evidence of the airport officers; those credibility findings were not so against the weight of evidence as to render the convictions unsafe, and the appeal against conviction is dismissed.
27 Nov 1986
Convictions quashed because the evidence, including the appellant's cautioned statement, did not prove beyond reasonable doubt that he knew the others had weapons or shared an intention to cause grievous bodily harm, and therefore lacked the requisite mens rea for the offences charged.