Blackmail and Demanding With Intent Liabilities

Question 1

Blackmail

Answer 1

Section 237(1), Crimes Act 1961

• Threatens
• Expressly or by implication
• To make any accusation against any person (whether living or dead), to disclose something about any person (whether living or dead, or to cause serious damage to property or endanger the safety of any person with intent
• To cause the person to whom the threat is made to act in accordance with the will of the person making the threat
• To obtain any benefit or to cause loss to any other person

Question 2

Demands With Intent To Obtain Benefit/Advantage etc.

Answer 2

Section 239(1), Crimes Act 1961

• Without claim of right
• By force or with any threat
• Compels any person to execute, make, accept, endorse, alter, or destroy any document capable of conferring a pecuniary advantage
• With intent to obtain any benefit

Question 3

Demands With Intent To Steal

Answer 3

Section 239(2), Crimes Act 1961

• With menaces or by any threat
• Demands any property from any persons
• With intent to steal it