Fitzgerald v R
| Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
| Judge | Hayne,Crennan,Kiefel,Bell,Gageler JJ |
| Judgment Date | 13 August 2014 |
| Neutral Citation | [2014] HCA 28 |
| Date | 13 August 2014 |
| Court | High Court |
| Docket Number | A9/2014 |
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7 cases
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David Harold Eastman v DPP
...v The Queen (1997) 76 FCR 9 referred to Eastman v The Queen (2000) 203 CLR 1 referred to Elias v The Queen (2013) 248 CLR 48 applied Fitzgerald v The Queen [2014] HCA 28 applied Fountain v Alexander (1982) 150 CLR 615 applied Gilham v R [2012] NSWCCA 131 applied Grassby v The Queen (1989) ......
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R. v. Hall, 2018 MBCA 122
...EWCA Crim 2698 (BAILII) at paras 118-27; United States v Brooks, 727 F (3d) 1291 at 1296‑97 (10th Cir 2013); Fitzgerald v The Queen, [2014] HCA 28 at paras 22, 36; and R v Awer, 2017 SCC 2 at para [156] When a party relies on expert evidence, the facts on which an opinion is based must be p......
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香港特別行政區 訴 陳耀威及另一人
...v Bryon案例早已被英國上訴法庭在 R v FNC [2016] 1 WLR 980一案所質疑，並在 R v Tsekiri [2017] 1 WLR 2879 一案被批評為不正確的處理方法。林大律師援引的澳洲案件 Fitzfgerald v R (2014) 311 ALR 158並沒有定下任何法律原則，該案的裁決只是建基於該案本身的獨特案情作出。 35....
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S v Tshehlo
...[15] Ibid para 7 [16] DNA in the Courtroom: Principles and Practice (2010) [17] S v SB at para 19 [18] An Australian High Court case, [2014] HCA 28 (13 August ...
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1 firm's commentaries
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Body of Knowledge: Expert evidence and the limits of specialised knowledge
...[2013] NSWCCA 135 at [63]. 4Raymond George MORGAN v R [2011] NSWCCA 257. 5See, for example, the High Court case of Fitzgerald v The Queen [2014] HCA 28, where upon close scrutiny an expert's opinion on DNA evidence was thrown out because of subtleties in the evidence. 6See the Sydney Law Re......
3 books & journal articles
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Inroads into the Ultimate Issue Rule? Structural Elements of Communication between Experts and Fact-Finders
...must be based on the evi-dence as a whole, of which the expert evidence and opinion only forms a part.101. Fitzgerald v. the Queen [2014], HCA 28, para 23.102. Hand, Expert Testimony (n. 16), p. 50. Note that one of the major philosophical insights in philosophy of science of the late20thce......
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FORENSIC SCIENCE EVIDENCE AND THE LIMITS OF CROSS-EXAMINATION.
...[1992] 2 VR 109; Pantoja (1996) 88 A Crim R 554; R v Karger (2001) 83 SASR 1; R v Gallagher [2001] NSWSC 462; Fitzgerald v The Queen (2014) 311 ALR 158; Tuite v The Queen (2015) 49 VR 196 ('Tuite'); R v Tang (2006) 65 NSWLR 681 ('Tang'); Murdoch v The Queen (2007) 167 A Crim R 329; Morgan v......
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Court of Appeal
...to an activity, then the probative value of DNA may be severelycompromised (see, e.g. HMA vTobin 2008 GWD 40-607; Fitzgerald vThe Queen [2014] HCA 28).Cases testing the science of DNA profiling are extremely rare and have generally been confined to theCourt of Appeal of England and Wales (R......