24 Mar 2017
KAMAL SINGH v R [2017] NZSC 37
- Citation
- [2017] NZSC 37
- Court
- Supreme Court
The evidence of sexual activity with a third party shortly after the incident was too speculative and insufficiently directly relevant under s 44 to affect issues of consent or reasonable belief in consent or to undermine the verdict; therefore exclusion did not produce a substantial miscarriage of justice and leave to appeal was dismissed.
- Admissibility of sexual history
- Consent
- Reasonable belief in consent
- Mispecarriage of justice
- Cross-examination of complainant
- Section 44 evidence act 2006