On Not Speaking

(1959) 101 CLR 298.

(2002) 210 CLR 285.

(1993) 178 CLR 217.

Weissensteiner v The Queen (1993) 178 CLR 217, [20].

Ibid [19].

(2000) 199 CLR 620.

(2001) 205 CLR 50.

RPS v The Queen (2000) 199 CLR 620, [32].

Azzopardi v The Queen (2001) 205 CLR 50, [7–8].

Ibid [118].

Ibid [86].

At the time of Dyers' trial, unsworn dock statements were permitted.

Dyers v the Queen (2002) 210 CLR 285, [106].

Ibid [108].

Ibid [109].

R v Dyers [2000] NSWCCA 335, 62.

Ibid 67.

Ibid 67.

Dyers v the Queen (2002) 210 CLR 285, [9–12], [19] ( Gaudron Hayne JJ ), [26–27] ( McHugh J ), [53] ( Kirby J ), [119] ( Callinan J ).

Ibid [8].

[1814–23] All ER 80.

Dyers v the Queen (2002) 210 CLR 285, [9] ( Gaudron Hayne JJ ), [121] ( Callinan J ).

Ibid [10] ( Gaudron Hayne JJ ).

Ibid [11–12] ( Gaudron Hayne JJ ).

Ibid [14].

Ibid [24–25].

Ibid [25].

Ibid [26].

Ibid [26].

Ibid [26], [39–41].

Ibid [30].

Ibid [35].

Ibid [35].

Ibid [6] and [11] ( Gaudron Hayne JJ ), [118–119] ( Callinan J ).

Ibid [35].

Ibid [19].

Transcript of Proceedings, Dyers v The Queen, S255/2001 (High Court of Australia, McHugh J , 12 April 2002) <www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/hca/transcripts> 44.

One recent attempt to understand jury reasoning is Chesterman M Chan J Hampton S , Managing Prejudicial Publicity: An empirical study of criminal jury trials in New South Wales (2001).

Notwithstanding appeals on the basis of verdicts that are ‘unreasonable’, for which M v The Queen (1994) 181 CLR 487 and R v Gordon and Gordon (1991) 57 A Crim R 413 are authorities permitting appellate courts, in limited circumstances, to overturn a jury's verdict in criminal matters.

Davis v The Queen S39/2000 (3 May 2001) (with which Azzopardi was joined). R v OGD (1997) 45 NSWLR 744, the leading NSW authority and a child sexual assault, was the source of this principle.

RPS v The Queen (2000) 199 CLR 620, Dyers v The Queen (2002) 210 CLR 285.

Crofts v The Queen (1996) 186 CLR 427.

Longman v The Queen (1989) 168 CLR 79, Doggett v The Queen (2001) 208 CLR

Crampton v The Queen (2000) 206 CLR 161 and R v BWT (2002) 54 NSWLR 241.

R v RJC (Unreported, NSW CCA, 3 April 1998).

TKWJ v The Queen (2002) 212 CLR 124.

BRS v The Queen (1997) 191 CLR 275.

Hoch v The Queen (1998) 165 CLR 292 and Pfennig v The Queen (1995) 182 CLR 461.

R v Kneebone (1999) 47 NSWLR 450.

M v The Queen (1994) 181 CLR 487.