The panel of three judges will decide this case

Justice Stephen McLeish, Justice Lesley Taylor and Justice Peter Kidd are the judges hearing the case in Melbourne today and tomorrow. As appeal court judges, they had no involvement with the trial in Morwell last year. It'll be up to them to decide whether or not the appeals by both Erin Patterson and the public prosecutor are successful. If they do not all agree on the decision, the case will be decided by a majority vote (two to one). And so the opinion of the two agreeing judges becomes the