Anthony Bellanto KC

Areas of Practice

• Criminal Law
• Trial Advocacy
• Sentencing
• Appeals

Recent Cases in the Court of Criminal Appeal

• Mansweto v R [2018] NSWCCA – successful appeal against sentence – manifest excess
• [Restricted decision] [2019] NSWCCA 190 – successful appeal against conviction –unfair summing up
• Daaboul v R [2019] NSWCCA 191 – successful appeal against conviction – unreasonable verdict
• Casella v R [2019] NSWCCA 201 – successful appeal on sentence – manifest excess

Papers Delivered

• The Rule Against Hearsay – The impact of the new legislation on the “old chestnut”; The requirement to give notice with respect to witnesses – Delivered at Legal and Accounting Management Seminar on Thursday 28 March, 1996 at Masonic Centre, Sydney.
• The line between legitimate cross examination and exposing the character of the accused – Delivered at Criminal Law Specialists’ Conference, June 1996.
• Implied and Inherent Power – Delivered on Wednesday 11 March 1998 at the Law Society of NSW.
• Sex, Lies & Medicos – Delivered at Europe Pacific Medico-legal & Industrial Law Conference, Cortina d’ampezzo. Italy on 10-17 January, 1998.
• Sentencing for environmental offences – Delivered on Friday 6 February 1998 at the Metcalfe Auditorium, State Library.
• Current issues in jury trials – Delivered on Saturday, 14 February 1998 at the Dixon Room, State Library, Macquarie Street, Sydney.
• Sentencing – Guidelines and Important Judgments of the Court of Criminal Appeal – Delivered on Saturday 4 March 2000 at State Library of New South Wales.
• Keeping the Client Out of Gaol – Superior Courts By Anthony J Bellanto KC and Steven Torpey, 22 March 2001.
• Delayed Complaint of Sexual Assault – A Defence Perspective, 24 May 2001.
• Costs in Criminal Cases. 31 October 2001
• Instinctive Synthesis or Two-Stage Approach: Does it Really Matter? Discretion in Sentencing, 30 July 2004.
• “A New Way to Sentence for Serious Crime”: A Response to Spigelman CJ – Delivered at the Criminal Law Specialists Day held at State Library, 4 June 2005.
• Drug Abuse as a Defence – Delivered to the Medico-Legal Society of NSW, 7 March 2007.
• Making Effective Bail Applications – Delivered at The College of Law, Criminal Law Update, 30 November 2007.
• Are Too Many Rights Wrong? Debate held by the Macquarie University Law School, 10 September 2009.
• The Art of Advocacy – Delivered at the Continuing Professional Development Seminars, 17 November 2010.
• Developments in Double Jeopardy and the Application of the Statutory Non-Parole Period – Delivered at the Lexis Nexis Criminal Law Conference, 30 November 2011.
• Criminal Law Update: A review and analysis of some important changes to the criminal law. Delivered at the Sydney CLE Conference, 30 March 2012.
• The Guilty Plea – Sentencing Advocacy – Delivered at the UNSW CLE Criminal Law Essential Update Conference, 11 March 2015.
• Dealing with Stress and Trauma in Your Criminal Law Practice – Delivered at the Annual Criminal Law Symposium, 21 March 2015.
• Police Investigative Powers in Drug Trafficking Cases – Delivered at the Annual Criminal Law Symposium, 12 March 2016.
• Child Sexual Offence Evidence: The New Pilot Scheme – Delivered at the Annual Criminal Law Symposium, 11 March 2017.
• The Royal Commission Model Legislation to Amend Evidence Laws: Tendency and Coincidence, but not as we know it… or do we know it all – Delivered at the Annual Criminal Law Symposium, 10 March 2018.
• The Continued Utility of General Deterrence as a Purpose of Sentencing – Delivered at the Annual Criminal Law Symposium, 16 March 2019.