Criminal law elements

428 Pages·2018·2.828 MB·English

by  Penny Crofts, CCH Australia Limited,

CRIMINAL LAW ELEMENTS
Sixth Edition
CRIMINAL LAW ELEMENTS
Sixth Edition
Penny Crofts
BEc, LLB (Hons), LLM (Syd), MPhil (Criminology) (Cantab), PhD (Griffith)
Associate Professor of Law,
University of Technology Sydney
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2018
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Author: Crofts, Penny.
Title: Criminal law elements.
Edition: 6th edition.
ISBN: 9780409347401 (pbk).
9780409347418 (ebk).
Notes: Includes index.
Subjects: Criminal law—Australia. Criminal law—Australia
—Cases.
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Acknowledgements
Much gratitude to my partner, family and friends for helping me complete the
book and letting me use their names in the problem questions. Thanks also to
the staff at LexisNexis Butterworths in developing the latest edition. I would
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of Criminal Law Elements.
Table of Cases
References are to paragraph numbers
A
Akbulut v Grimshaw [1998] 3 VR 756 .… 10.4
Allen v United Carpet Mills Pty Ltd [1989] VR 323 .… 2.49
Anic, Stylian and Suleyman v R (1993) 68 A Crim R 313; [1993] SASC 4159 .
… 9.5, 9.9
Arulthilakan v R (2003) 203 ALR 259 .… 3.25, 4.26
Astor v Hayes (1988) 38 A Crim R 219 .… 9.30
Attorney-General v Huber (1971) 2 SASR 142 .… 8.33
— v Whelan [1934] IR 518 .… 13.34
Attorney-General for Northern Ireland v Gallagher [1963] AC 349 .… 12.22,
13.4, 13.14
Attorney-General for South Australia v Brown [1960] AC 432 .… 12.20
Attorney-General’s Reference (No 1 of 1975), Re [1975] QB 773 .… 11.25,
11.29
Attorney-General’s Reference (No 1 of 1983), Re [1984] 3 All ER 369 .… 10.15
Attorney-General’s Reference (No 3 of 1994), Re [1998] AC 245 .… 3.7, 3.8,
4.39, 6.4, 6.7
Attorney-General’s Reference (No 3 of 1998), Re [1999] 3 All ER 40 .… 12.4
B
Balcombe v De Simoni (1972) 126 CLR 576 .… 9.51, 9.54
Barker v R (1983) 47 ALR 1 .… 10.59, 10.60
Barton v Armstrong [1969] 2 NSWR 451 .… 7.14, 7.20, 7.65
— v — [1976] AC 104 .… 2.12
Boughey v R (1986) 161 CLR 10; 65 ALR 609 .… 4.13, 4.14, 4.45, 7.5, 7.6, 7.33
BP v R [2006] NSWCCA 172 .… 2.4
Bratty v Attorney-General (Northern Ireland) [1963] AC 386 .… 2.14, 2.17,
12.27
Britten v Alpogut [1987] VR 929 .… 11.78, 11.82
Brown v R (1986) 43 SASR 33 .… 13.35, 13.39
Burns v R (2012) 290 ALR 713 .… 3.41, 6.13, 6.20
C
Callaghan v R (1952) 87 CLR 115 .… 6.13, 6.15
Chard v Wallis (1988) 12 NSWLR 453 .… 2.47
Chayna v R (1993) 66 A Crim R 178 .… 5.57
Chhay v R (1994) 72 A Crim R 1 .… 5.22, 5.41
Clayton v R; Hardwick v R; Hardwick v R (2006) 231 ALR 500 .… 11.2, 11.45
Coleman v R (1990) 19 NSWLR 467 .… 7.7
Collins v Wilcock [1984] 3 All ER 374 .… 7.31, 7.33
Condon v R (1995) 83 A Crim R 335 .… 9.32
CTM v R (2008) 247 ALR 1; [2008] HCA 25 .… 2.46, 2.47, 8.17, 13.20
D
Davis v R (1998) 100 A Crim R 573; 73 ALJR 139 .… 5.22, 5.50
Day v R [2017] NSWCCA 192 .… 13.13
Director of Public Prosecutions v Brooks [1974] AC 862; (1974) 59 Cr App R
185 .… 9.6
— v Camplin [1978] QB 254 .… 5.30
— v Gomez [1993] AC 442 .… 10.13
— v JWH (unreported, NSWCCA, 17 October 1997) .… 7.31
— v Majewski [1977] AC 443 .… 13.3, 13.8, 13.10, 13.15
— v Morgan [1976] AC 182 .… 8.27, 8.29, 13.17
— v Ray [1974] AC 370 .… 9.61, 9.62, 10.46
— v Richardson [1998] 2 VR 188 .… 7.36
— v Smith [2006] EWHC 94 .… 7.50
— v Stonehouse [1978] AC 55 .… 11.80
— v Traynor (Ruling) [2012] VSC 100 .… 12.17
— v Williams [1993] VR 15 .… 7.63
— (NSW) v Bone (2005) 64 NSWLR 735 .… 2.47
Donoghue v Coombe (1987) 45 SASR 330 .… 9.4, 9.37
Douglas v R [2005] NSWCCA 419 .… 13.30
E
Edwards v Baugh (1843) 152 ER 962 .… 9.66
— v R [1973] AC 648 .… 5.23
Elliot and Hitchins v R (1983) 9 A Crim R 238 .… 4.37
Ellis v Lawson (1987) 33 A Crim R 69 .… 9.8, 9.11
F
Fagan v Metropolitan Police Commissioner [1969] 1 QB 439 .… 2.51, 7.3,
7.13, 7.28, 7.29, 7.43, 13.44
Fitzgerald v Kennard (1995) 38 NSWLR 184 .… 8.33
Fowler v Padget (1798) 101 ER 1103 .… 2.7
Fry v R (1992) 58 SASR 424 .… 5.5
G
Gall v R [2015] NSWCCA 69 .… 11.63, 11.66
Gardner v R (1989) 42 A Crim R 279 .… 5.17, 5.22
Gillard v R (2003) 219 CLR 1 .… 11.38
Giorgi and Romeo v R (1982) 31 SASR 299 .… 11.28
Giorgianni v R (1985) 156 CLR 473 .… 2.34, 11.22, 11.23, 11.24, 11.32, 11.33,
11.34, 11.35, 11.37, 11.47, 11.79
Gollins v Gollins [1964] AC 644 .… 4.6
Green v R (1997) 148 ALR 659 .… 5.26, 5.31, 5.32
Greene v R (1949) 79 CLR 353 .… 9.48
H
Hadba v R (2004) 182 FLR 472 .… 13.12
Hamilton-Byrne, Re [1995] 1 VR 129 .… 11.77
Harris v Harrison [1963] Crim LR 497 .… 9.27
Haughton v Smith [1975] AC 476 .… 11.80
Hawi v R (2014) 244 A Crim R 169 .… 11.10
He Kaw Teh v R (1985) 157 CLR 523 .… 2.24, 2.25, 2.28, 2.41, 2.42, 2.43, 2.44,
2.45, 2.46, 2.49, 13.20
Helmhout v R (1980) 1 A Crim R 464 .… 5.46
Hibbert v McKiernan [1948] 2 KB 142 .… 9.7, 9.9, 9.37, 10.7
Hickling v Laneyrie (1991) 21 NSWLR 730 .… 2.49
Holman v R [1970] WAR 2 .… 8.15
Holmes v DPP [1946] AC 588 .… 5.10
Hudd v R [2013] NSWCCA 57 .… 4.37
Huynh v R (2013) 295 ALR 624 .… 11.2, 11.3, 11.10
Hyde v R [1990] 3 All ER 872 .… 11.42
I
Ibrahim v R [2014] NSWCCA 160 .… 13.19
Ilich v R (1987) 162 CLR 110; [1987] HCA 1 .… 9.2, 9.17, 9.18, 9.19, 9.20,
9.35, 9.43, 9.78, 10.23, 11.82
J
Jayasena v R [1970] AC 618 .… 1.24
Jewell and Crimes Compensation Tribunal, Re (unreported, VSC, 16 January
1987, Legoe J) .… 7.39
Jiminez v R (1992) 173 CLR 572; 106 ALR 162 .… 2.18, 2.44, 12.24
Johns v R (1980) 28 ALR 155 .… 11.38, 11.39, 11.82
Johnson v R (1976) 136 CLR 619 .… 5.6, 5.38
K
Ka v R [2015] NSWCCA 111 .… 11.12
Kearon v Grant [1991] 1 VR 321 .… 2.49
Kennedy v R [1981] VR 565 .… 2.44
Kennison v Daire (1986) 160 CLR 1296; 4 ALR 17; [1986] HCA 4 .… 9.12,
9.50, 10.7, 10.43
Knight v R (1992) 175 CLR 495 .… 11.79
L