Di Paolo v The Queen [2019] VSC 194 (available on AustLII here) saw unsuccessful leave to appeal applications in respect of conviction and sentence by Raffaele di Paolo, who had been convicted for fraudulent misrepresentation of medical qualifications. As noted by the Court at [2]:
In the broadest of terms, these charges arise from the activities of the applicant over a 10-year period. Before, during and after that period, the applicant falsely represented that he was a qualified medical practitioner and offered ‘fertility treatments’ to people who came to him as ‘patients’. The allegations were that the applicant obtained money by deceiving clients as to his medical qualifications and carried out numerous intimate examinations, which the clients would not have permitted if they had known he was not medically qualified.
In the County Court, following pre-trial argument and rulings, the applicant had pleaded guilty to five charges of obtaining property by deception but not guilty to the other 17 charges, which included charges of procuring sexual penetration by fraud, common assault and indecent assault. A jury later found the applicant guilty of 15 of those 17 remaining charges.