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Tofilau v The Queen

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JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
JudgeGleeson CJ.,Gummow,Hayne JJ.,Kirby J,Callinan,Heydon,Crennan JJ
Judgment Date30 August 2007
Neutral Citation2007-0830 HCA D,[2007] HCA 39
CourtHigh Court
Docket NumberMatter No M144/2006 Matter No M146/2006 Matter No M147/2006
Date30 August 2007
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24 cases
  • Thorne v Kennedy
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 8 November 2017
    ...of Undue Influence”, in Beatson and Friedmann (eds), Good Faith and Fault in Contract Law, (1995) 57 at 69. 147Tofilau v The Queen (2007) 231 CLR 396 at 417 [49]; see also at 404 [6]; [2007] HCA 39. 148Huguenin v Baseley (1807) 14 Ves Jun 273 at 300 [ 33 ER 526 at 536]; Bridgewater (1998) 1......
  • Lee v New South Wales Crime Commission
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 9 October 2013
    ...betrayer or in its popular English mistranslation “the right to silence”’. 187 This passage from R v Sang was cited with approval in Tofilau v The Queen370, where it was said that if an accused is convicted wholly or largely on the basis of a confession, a question would arise in some minds......
  • Raftland Pty Ltd as Trustee of the Raftland Trust v Commissioner of Taxation
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 22 May 2008
    ...v Southbank Traders Pty Ltd (2007) 227 CLR 305 at 313 [23]; [2007] HCA 19; Tofilau v The Queen (2007) 81 ALJR 1688 at 1727–1728 [188]; 238 ALR 650 at 699; [2007] HCA 39; Telstra Corporation Ltd v The Commonwealth (2008) 82 ALJR 521 at 530 [43]; 243 ALR 1 at 13; [2008] HCA 120 Kingston v Kep......
  • Stuart v Kirkland-Veenstra
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 22 April 2009
    ... ... And, as Windeyer J pointed out in Ryan v The Queen 89 , albeit in a different context, words like ‘voluntary’ are ambiguous. But expressed in the most general way, the value described as personal ... 89 (1967) 121 CLR 205 at 244; [1967] HCA 2 ... See also Tofilau v The Queen (2007) 231 CLR 396 at 404 -405 [6], 417-418 [49]–[52]; [2007] HCA 39 ... 90 Agar v Hyde ... ...
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2 firm's commentaries
  • Fox v Leighton Contractors Pty Limited Ors [2008] NSWCA23 Court Of Appeal NSW
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 15 April 2008
    ...(Australia) Pty Ltd [2006] NSWCA 174 Stevens v Brodribb Sawmilling Co Pty Ltd (1986) 160 CLR 16 Leichhardt Municipal Council v Montgomery [2007] HCA 39 The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your spe......
  • Evidentiary issues with social media and confessions and admissions
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 31 January 2016
    ...3 Dabrowsk v Greeuw [2014] WADC 175. 4 Tex Crim App 2012. 5 R v Usher(2014) SASCF 32; (2014) 119 SASR 22; BC201402568. 6 Tofilau v R (2007) 231 CLR 396; [2007] HCA 39; BC200707276. 7 R v Hasanov [2013] QDC 342. 8 Above n 8, at [9]. 9 Above n 8, at [11]. 10 See for example, MashableAsia, 20 ......
7 books & journal articles
  • Subject Index
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 12-4, November 2008
    • 1 November 2008
    .... . . . . . . . . . . 277R v Tirnaveanu [2007] EWCA Crim 1239, [2007] 1WLR 3049 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119,124, 132, 278R vTofilau [2007] HCA39. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287R vTolson (1864) 4F & F103, 176 ER488 . . . . . 290R vTurner [1975] QB834 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......
  • Authenticating ‘Things’ in English Law: Principles for Adducing Tangible Evidence in Common Law Jury Trials
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 12-4, November 2008
    • 1 November 2008
    ...Crim 3244 at [27].112 See above n. 59. Contrast RvPenney (2002) 163 CCC (3d) 329.113 RvBhaskar Thanki (1990) 93 Cr App R 12.114 RvTofilau [2007] HCA 39 at [53]. There was a possibility in this case that the confessions, which hadbeen made orally to police officers posing as gangsters and ta......
  • The governance of covert investigation.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 34 No. 3, December 2010
    • 1 December 2010
    ...Developments in Entrapment' [2006] Covert Policing Review 65, 65-7. (54) A point wryly observed by Gleeson C.I in Tofilau v The Queen (2007) 231 CLR 396, 403 [5]. Lack of case law does not help to develop an understanding of the regulatory framework. Formulaic application wording may be re-......
  • Confessions to Mr Big
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 20-1, January 2016
    • 1 January 2016
    ...should be excluded as unfair or on public policy grounds as an abuse of process at common law.96. [2013] QSC 337.97. Tofilau vThe Queen (2007) 231 CLR 396.98. RvCowan, above n. 94 at [83]–[90] per Margaret McMurdo P (Fraser JA agreeing). Also, her Honour observed at [85]–[87]that the appell......
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