Contents

Index  Victorian Criminal Charge Book  Part 1: Preliminary Direction  1.1 – Introductory Remarks  1.2 – Jury Empanelment  1.3 – Selecting a Foreperson  1.4 – The Role of Judge and Jury  1.5 – Decide Solely on the Evidence  1.6 – Assessing Witnesses  1.7 – Onus and Standard of Proof  1.8 - Separate Consideration  1.9 - Alternative verdicts  1.10 – Trial Procedure  1.11 - Consolidated preliminary directions  Part 2: Directions in Running  2.1 - Views  2.2 - Providing Documents to the Jury  2.3 – Other Procedures for Taking Evidence  2.4 – Unavailable witnesses  2.5 – Witness invoking Evidence Act 2008 s128  Part 3: Final Directions  3.1 - Directions Under Jury Directions Act 2015  3.2 - Overview of Final Directions  3.3 - Review of the Role of the Judge and Jury  3.4 - Review of the Requirement to Decide Solely on the Evidence  3.5 - Review of the Assessment of Witnesses  3.6 - Circumstantial Evidence and Inferences  3.7 - Review of the Onus and Standard of Proof  3.8 - Review of Separate Consideration  3.9 - Judge’s Summing Up on Issues and Evidence  3.10 - Alternative Verdicts  3.11 - Unanimous Verdicts and Extended Jury Unanimity  3.12 - Taking Verdicts  3.13 - Perseverance and Majority Verdict Directions  3.14 - Intermediaries and ground rules explained  3.15 - Concluding Remarks  3.16 - Consolidated final directions  Part 4: Evidentiary Directions  4.1 - The Accused as a Witness  4.2 - Child Witnesses  4.3 - Character Evidence  4.4 - Prosecution Witness's Motive to Lie  4.5 - Confessions and Admissions  4.6 - Incriminating Conduct (Post Offence Lies and Conduct)  4.7 - Corroboration (General Principles)  4.8 - Delayed Complaint  4.9 - Distress  4.10 - Prosecution Failure to Call or Question Witnesses  4.11 - Defence Failure to Call Witnesses  4.12 - Failure to Challenge Evidence (Browne v Dunn)  4.13 - Identification Evidence  4.14 - Opinion Evidence  4.15 - Previous Representations (Hearsay, Recent Complaint and Prior Statements)     4.15.1 - Charge: Unreliability of Hearsay Evidence     4.15.2 - Charge: Prior Inconsistent Statements     4.15.3 - Charge: Prior Consistent Statements     4.15.4 - Charge: Complaint Evidence  4.16 - Silence in Response to People in Authority  4.17 - Silence in Response to Equal Parties  4.18 - Tendency Evidence  4.19 - Coincidence Evidence  4.20 - Other forms of other misconduct evidence  4.21 - Unfavourable Witnesses  4.22 - Unreliable Evidence Warning  4.23 - Criminally Concerned Witness Warnings  4.24 - Prison Informer Warnings  4.25 - Word Against Word Cases  4.26 - Differences in a Complainant’s Account  4.27 - Alibi  Part 5: Complicity  5.1 - Overview  5.2 - Statutory Complicity (From 1/11/14)  5.3 - Joint Criminal Enterprise (Pre-1/11/14)  5.4 - Extended Common Purpose (Pre-1/11/14)  5.5 - Aiding, Abetting, Counselling or Procuring (Pre-1/11/14)  5.6 - Assist Offender  5.7 – Commonwealth Complicity (s 11.2)  5.8 – Commonwealth Joint Commission (s 11.2A)  5.9 - Innocent Agent (Victorian Offences)  5.10 - Commission by Proxy (Commonwealth offences)  Part 6: Conspiracy, Incitement and Attempts  6.1 - Conspiracy to Commit an Offence (Victoria)  6.2 - Conspiracy (Commonwealth)  6.3 - Incitement (Victoria)  6.4 - Attempt (Victoria)  Part 7: Victorian Offences  7.1 - General Directions  7.2 - Homicide  7.3 - Sexual Offences  7.4 - Other Offences Against the Person  7.5 - Dishonesty and Property Offences  7.6 - Drug Offences  7.7 – Occupational Health and Safety  7.8 - Offences against justice  Part 8: Victorian Defences  8.1 - Statutory Self-Defence (From 1/11/14)  8.2 - Statutory Self-Defence (Pre - 1/11/14) and Defensive Homicide  8.3 - Common Law Self-Defence  8.4 - Mental Impairment  8.5 - Statutory Intoxication (From 1/11/14)  8.6 - Statutory Intoxication (23/11/05 - 31/10/14)  8.7 - Common Law Intoxication  8.8 - Automatism  8.9 - Statutory Duress (From 1/11/14)  8.10 - Statutory Duress (23/11/05 - 31/10/14)  8.11 - Common Law Duress  8.12 - Provocation  8.13 - Suicide Pact  8.14 - Powers of arrest  8.15 - Police search and seizure powers without a warrant  Part 9: Commonwealth Offences  9.1 - Commonwealth Drug Offences  9.2 - People Smuggling (Basic Offence)  9.3 - People Smuggling (5 or More People)  9.4 - Use of carriage service for child pornography material  Part 10: Unfitness to Stand Trial  10.1 – Investigations into Unfitness to Stand Trial  10.2 – Special Hearings