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Saffin v R [2020] NSWCCA 246

Despite being a sentence appeal, this decision sheds some light on how the law of consent works in the context of sex offences. After reiterating that a sentencing judge is not obliged to accept the defence version on sentence just because they do not accept the prosecution version, the Court went o

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