Alexis Kaczmarek 25/5/26 Alexis Kaczmarek 25/5/26

Cultivating an acquittal on Count 2 in the Court of Appeal: Kouvaris, Cirillo & Giannini v The King[2026] SASCA 48

The South Australian Court of Appeal decision in Kouvaris, Cirillo & Giannini v The King [2026] SASCA 48 is a useful case for understanding the limitations of improbability reasoning.

Alexis Kaczmarek 11/5/26 Alexis Kaczmarek 11/5/26

The High Court clarifies how to treat distress evidence in The King v Tsalkos [2025] HCA 49

The High Court of Australia in The King v Tsalkos [2025] HCA 49 has clarified how evidence of a victim’s distress can be treated in criminal trials.

Alexis Kaczmarek 29/11/25 Alexis Kaczmarek 29/11/25

High Court Backs AFP Use of AN0M App in Operation Ironside

The High Court of Australia has upheld the use of encrypted-app evidence collected by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) during Operation Ironside, ruling that messages obtained through the AN0M app were lawfully used and that Parliament’s “confirmation law” validating that evidence is constitutionally sound.

Alexis Kaczmarek 9/9/25 Alexis Kaczmarek 9/9/25

SA Court of Appeal quashes conviction over the ‘rule against narrative’

In McClelland v The King [2025] SASCA 87, the South Australian Court of Appeal has overturned a rape conviction after finding a failure to direct the jury on an out-of-court statement left ‘obvious risks’ that the jury would ‘misuse the conversation’, to either bolster the complainant’s credibility (the ‘bolster rule’) or as evidence of uncharged acts.