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The 16 page paper looks at a number of issues in Australian law. These include the history main issues of the case of Evans v Queen [2007] HCA 59 concerning law of evidence, the regulation of genetically modified (GM) crops in Australia. the Kyoto to protocol and its' position with in the Australian legal system, carbon sequestration rights, fines and demerit points for driving offences, the position of a public employee if they want to stand for election to the House of Representatives, examples of human rights laws in Australia, examples of courts and tribunals set up to address aboriginal issues, the ability to resist a discovery of documents order issued under The Evidence Act 1995 and potential breaches of law by AWB under the oil for food programme in Iraq. The bibliography cites 14 sources.
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criminal trial in the District Court of New South Wales, with the appellant being charged and found guilty of two armed robbery charges, and one charge of assault with intent
to rob whilst armed with an offensive weapon for an incident which occurred in February 2002 The defendant in the first case appealed against this conviction by taking the case
to the Court of Criminal Appeal of New South Wales seen in Evans v R [2006] NSWCCA 277. The hearing was on the 22nd of May 2006. The first basis
of the appeal was the way in which evidence had been presented in the original trial and the applicability of s53 of the Evidence Act 1995 (NSW) and under common
law in terms of court demonstrations, the defendant was asked to wear overalls and a balaclava which were being presented as evidence, as well as sunglasses which were not in
evidence and being asked to say the same words as the robber as a demonstration. At the court of appeal it was found acceptable that the defendant was asked
to out on the clothes in evidence, but should not have been asked to put on sunglasses which were not in evidence. The second basis of the appeal was
that evidence of an alibi had been excluded by the initial trial judge under s.150 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1986 (NSW) as no notice of this evidence had been
given. In the court of appeal it was noted that the trial judge did have some discretion and had wrongly excluded this evidence. The decision of the appeal court
was given on the 7th of September 2006, The errors in the trial court were recognized, but it was stated by the appeal judges; James J; Hidden J; Hoeben J
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