Tofilau v The Queen
| Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
| Judge | Gleeson CJ.,Gummow,Hayne JJ.,Kirby J,Callinan,Heydon,Crennan JJ |
| Judgment Date | 30 August 2007 |
| Neutral Citation | 2007-0830 HCA D,[2007] HCA 39 |
| Court | High Court |
| Docket Number | Matter No M144/2006 Matter No M146/2006 Matter No M147/2006 |
| Date | 30 August 2007 |
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23 cases
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Stuart v Kirkland-Veenstra
...... 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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Lee v New South Wales Crime Commission
...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......
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Thorne v Kennedy
...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......
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Em v The Queen
...been examined by this Court on a number of occasions, including in Cleland v The Queen51, R v Swaffield52 and most recently Tofilau v The Queen53. 109 When it is ‘unfair’ to use evidence of an out-of-court admission at the trial of an accused person cannot be described exhaustively. ‘Unfair......
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2 firm's commentaries
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Fox v Leighton Contractors Pty Limited Ors [2008] NSWCA23 Court Of Appeal NSW
...(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......
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Evidentiary issues with social media and confessions and admissions
...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
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Subject Index
.... . . . . . . . . . . 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......
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Authenticating ‘Things’ in English Law: Principles for Adducing Tangible Evidence in Common Law Jury Trials
...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......
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The governance of covert investigation.
...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-......
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Confessions to Mr Big
...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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