Case Law Flashcards
R v MANE
Application: AATF
To be considered an accessory, the acts done must be after the offence is complete
R v CROOKS
Application: AATF
Actual knowledge and no real doubt that the person assisted was a party to the relevant offence
R v MORLEY
Loss (Deception case)
Loss assessed by extent complainants position prior to offence is diminished/impaired
R v ARCHER
Property damage (arson case)
Property may be damaged if suffers
Permanent/temporary physics harm or
Permanent/temporary impairment of use or value
CAMERON v R
Recklessness
Recognising real possibility actions would bring a proscribed result and actions were unreasonable
R v TIPPLE
Conscious appreciation of risk and a deliberate decision to run the risk
R v COLLISTER
Intent can be inferred from circumstantial evidences and inferred from:
1 - Offenders actions/words before or during and after
2 - the surrounding circumstances
3 - the nature of the act itself
R v TAISALIKA
The nature of the blow and gash produced point strongly to the presence of necessary intent
R v MCARTHUR
Bodily harm includes any hurt or injury that interferes with the health/comfort of victim and more than trifling
DPP v SMITH
Bodily harm needs no explanation and grievous means no more or less than really serious
R v WATERS
Wound = breaking of the skin evidenced by flow of blood (internal/external)
R v TIHI
Application (agg wounding)
Intended to facilitate an imprisonable offence or an intent from paragraph a-c
AND
Intended to cause specific harm OR
Was reckless to that risk
R v WATI
Aggravated wounding:
Must be proof of commission/attempted commission of a crime by person committing the assault or person whose arrest or flight he intends to avoid or facilitate
R v STURM
Stupefy means to cause an effect on the mind/nervous system which tealy seriously interferes with persons mental or physical ability to act which might hinder a crime
R v CROSSAN (incapable resistance)
Incapable of resistance includes a powerlessness of the will as well as physical incapacity
R v RAPANA and MURRAY
Disfigures covers temporary damage too not just permanent
R v SKIVINGTON
A honest belief of claim of right is a defence to the theft element of robbery
R v LAPIER
Complete robbery instant property taken
R v PEAT (repeat return)
Immediate return of goods does not purge the offence
R v COX (possession)
Possession = physical element (physical custody)
and mental element (knowledge and intention)
R v MAIHI
Nexus between the act of stealing and a threat of violence
R v BROUGHTON
Threat of violence is the manifestation of intention to inflict violence. Threat may be direct or veiled and by words or conduct