R v Accused (CA 160/92) - [1993] 1 NZLR 385

Criminal law — Practice and procedure — Specimen charges — Specificity of charges — Sexual abuse of children — Eleven charges of sexual offences alleged to have been committed against three women in their childhood or adolescence — Successive instances of conduct as one transaction — Whether charges sufficiently specific as to dates — Crimes Act 1961, ss 329 and 358.

Criminal law — Practice and procedure — Sexual abuse of children — Specimen charges — Specificity of charges — Observations as to latent ambiguity and possibility of double jeopardy.