Bulejcik v R

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Neutral Citation[1996] HCA 50,1996-0417 HCA B
Year1996
Date1996
CourtHigh Court
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23 cases
  • Evans v The Queen
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 13 December 2007
    ... ... Prosecution counsel's requests were also relevant in being capable of eliciting answers favourable to the prosecution ... 182 The accused submitted, apparently relying on Bulejcik v The Queen 137 , that evidence of the speech idiosyncrasy shared by the accused and the offender was irrelevant unless the jury could compare the accused's voice in court with an out of court recording. That case affords no warrant for the submission, which is contrary to principle ... ...
  • Gately v The Queen
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 6 December 2007
    ...42 Reasons of Hayne J at [82]. 43 R v H [1999] 2 Qd R 283 at 290 [18], 295 [47]–[49]; R v C [2000] 2 Qd R 54. 44 Bulejcik v The Queen (1996) 185 CLR 375 at 45 Especially Rawlings [1995] 1 WLR 178; [1995] 1 All ER 580; Welstead [1996] 1 Cr App R 59 and R v Thomas (1992) 9 CRNZ 113. 46 (2002......
  • Festa v R
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 13 December 2001
    ...R 58 at 72. 55R v O'Sullivan unreported, Supreme Court of Queensland, Court of Appeal, 21 July 1995 at 4. 56 cf Bulejcik v The Queen (1996) 185 CLR 375 at 381–382 per Brennan CJ, 394–395 per Toohey and Gaudron JJ, 406–407 per McHugh and Gummow JJ. 57 (1968) 117 CLR 313 at 316. 58 [1946] KB ......
  • AK v The State of Western Australia
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 26 March 2008
    ...Law Consolidation Act 1935 (SA), s 352(1)(ab). 36R v Taufahema (2007) 228 CLR 232 at 256 [52]; [2007] HCA 11. 37Bulejcik v The Queen (1996) 185 CLR 375; [1996] 185 CLR. 38 Union v State 66 SE 24 (Ga App, 1909) (‘the liquid … smelled like whisky’); Sherrard v Jacob [1965] NILR 151 at 160 (‘f......
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3 books & journal articles
  • FACIAL RECOGNITION AND IMAGE COMPARISON EVIDENCE: IDENTIFICATION BY INVESTIGATORS, FAMILIARS, EXPERTS, SUPER-RECOGNISERS AND ALGORITHMS.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 45 No. 1, August 2021
    • 1 August 2021
    ...54) [26]-[27], [41], [60]-[61] (Heydon JA); R v El-Kheir [2004] NSWCCA 461, [94]-[97], [111]- [114] (Tobias JA); Bulejcik v The Queen (1996) 185 CLR 375, 382-3 (Brennan (126) Where those proffering opinions are translators (who understand the language on the recording), they might have an a......
  • The Quasi-Expert Witness: Fish or Fowl?
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 73-2, April 2009
    • 1 April 2009
    ...witness's purported identif‌ication of the offender fromtwo words spoken three years previously. In the Australian case of Bulejcik v R(1996) 185 CLR 375, the jury were asked to compare the defendant’s voice in146 The Journal of Criminal Law (2009) 73 JCL of identif‌ication evidence.7The di......
  • A fair ‘hearing’
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 21-3, July 2017
    • 1 July 2017
    ...in his list.6. Jury voice comparisons have been deemed an acceptable form of voice identification evidence; Bulejcik vThe Queen, (1996)185 CLR 375. See also RvSolomon [2005] SASC 265 at [57] (‘I proceed on the basis that Bulejcik is authority for theproposition that the jury can compare rec......

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