Honeysett v R

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
CourtHigh Court
JudgeFrench CJ,Kiefel,Gageler,Keane JJ
Judgment Date13 August 2014
Neutral Citation[2014] HCA 29
Docket NumberS57/2014
Date13 August 2014
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40 cases
  • Stuart v Rabobank Australia Ltd
    • Australia
    • Federal Court
    • 11 Noviembre 2021
    ...v St George Bank a Division of Westpac Banking Corporation; Haynes v Westpac Banking Corporation [2018] SASCFC 51 Honeysett v The Queen (2014) 253 CLR 122; [2014] HCA 29 Hornal v Neuberger Products Ltd [1957] 1 QB 247; [1956] 3 All ER 970 Hughes v The Queen (2017) 263 CLR 338; [2017] HCA 20......
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5 firm's commentaries
  • Body of Knowledge: Expert evidence and the limits of specialised knowledge
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 25 Febrero 2015
    ...v The Queen [2014] HCA 29 '[The] evidence gave the unwarranted appearance of science to the prosecution case that the appellant and Offender One share a number of physical characteristics ... "Offender One and the appellant are both ectomorphic" - was apt to suggest the existence of more te......
  • Expert evidence in New South Wales
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 22 Septiembre 2021
    ...judicial officers since the commencement of this provision and the issue of its definition has been resolved in Honeysett v The Queen (2014) 253 CLR 122 at "Specialised knowledge is knowledge which is outside that of persons who have not by training, study or experience acquired an understa......
  • Expert evidence in New South Wales
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 22 Septiembre 2021
    ...judicial officers since the commencement of this provision and the issue of its definition has been resolved in Honeysett v The Queen (2014) 253 CLR 122 at "Specialised knowledge is knowledge which is outside that of persons who have not by training, study or experience acquired an understa......
  • Opinion evidence in New South Wales
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 22 Septiembre 2021
    ...to an asserted fact: Allstate Life Insurance Co v ANZ Banking Group Ltd (No 5) (1996) 64 FCR 73, at [75] and Honeysett v The Queen (2014) 253 CLR 122. Evidence of an experience or description of evidence is not evidence of an opinion: R v Drolley [2005] NSWCCA 356, at [54-55]. The evidence ......
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7 books & journal articles
  • Legal versus non-legal approaches to forensic science evidence
    • United Kingdom
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 20-1, January 2016
    • 1 Enero 2016
    ...also R v Weighman [2011] EWCA Crim 2826. 35. Contrast the Australian response in Morgan v R [2011] NSWCCA 257 and Honeysett v The Queen [2014] HCA 29.36. Whether podiatrists perform this task significantly better than ordinary persons is an empirical question that ought to answered. See Cun......
  • Mental Health Expertise in Refugee Status Decision-Making: Judging or Caring?
    • United Kingdom
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 18-4, October 2014
    • 1 Octubre 2014
    ...ontraining, study or experience is a matter that goes to the admissibility of the evidence, not itsweight’. See also Honeysett vThe Queen [2014] HCA 29.36 Migration Act 1958 (Cth), s. 430 (RRT) and (for Departmental delegates) see s. 66. See, e.g., thediscussion of s. 430 in Algama vMiniste......
  • 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 Agosto 2021
    ...to the fingerprint records on file, which are used to identify latent prints from a crime scene. (8) See Honeysett v The Queen (2014) 253 CLR 122, 138 [45]-[46] (French CJ, Kiefel, Bell, Gageler and Keane JJ) ('Honeysett'). See also Kemp, Edmond and White (n 3) (9) See, eg, R v Tang(2006) 6......
  • FORENSIC SCIENCE EVIDENCE AND THE LIMITS OF CROSS-EXAMINATION.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 42 No. 3, August 2019
    • 1 Abril 2019
    ...A Crim R 329; Morgan v R (2011) 215 A Crim R 33; R v Dastagir (2013) 118 SASR 83; Honeysett v The Queen (2013) 233 A Crim R 152, revd (2014) 253 CLR 122 (Honeysett (High (11) NRC Report (n 8) 7; see also at 7-8. For an introduction and overview, see Gary Edmond, 'What Lawyers Should Know ab......
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