The principles governing the use of photographic evidence were summarised in Taitoko v R [2020] NSWCCA 43 at [80]-[81]: True it is that care must be taken when photographs are deployed. I regard it as self-evident that photographs (and, especially, the reproductions of photographs in appeal books) can contain obvious distortions of distance, colour and shape. They can also contain non-obvious distortions…

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