Case Law Flashcards

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R v MANE

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Application: AATF

To be considered an accessory, the acts done must be after the offence is complete

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R v CROOKS

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Application: AATF

Actual knowledge and no real doubt that the person assisted was a party to the relevant offence

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R v MORLEY

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Loss (Deception case)

Loss assessed by extent complainants position prior to offence is diminished/impaired

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4
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R v ARCHER

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Property damage (arson case)

Property may be damaged if suffers
Permanent/temporary physics harm or
Permanent/temporary impairment of use or value

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5
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CAMERON v R

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Recklessness

Recognising real possibility actions would bring a proscribed result and actions were unreasonable

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R v TIPPLE

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Conscious appreciation of risk and a deliberate decision to run the risk

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7
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R v COLLISTER

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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

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8
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R v TAISALIKA

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The nature of the blow and gash produced point strongly to the presence of necessary intent

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9
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R v MCARTHUR

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Bodily harm includes any hurt or injury that interferes with the health/comfort of victim and more than trifling

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10
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DPP v SMITH

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Bodily harm needs no explanation and grievous means no more or less than really serious

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11
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R v WATERS

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Wound = breaking of the skin evidenced by flow of blood (internal/external)

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12
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R v TIHI

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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

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13
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R v WATI

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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

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14
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R v STURM

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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

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15
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R v CROSSAN (incapable resistance)

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Incapable of resistance includes a powerlessness of the will as well as physical incapacity

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16
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R v RAPANA and MURRAY

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Disfigures covers temporary damage too not just permanent

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17
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R v SKIVINGTON

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A honest belief of claim of right is a defence to the theft element of robbery

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18
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R v LAPIER

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Complete robbery instant property taken

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19
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R v PEAT (repeat return)

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Immediate return of goods does not purge the offence

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20
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R v COX (possession)

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Possession = physical element (physical custody)

and mental element (knowledge and intention)

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21
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R v MAIHI

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Nexus between the act of stealing and a threat of violence

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22
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R v BROUGHTON

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Threat of violence is the manifestation of intention to inflict violence. Threat may be direct or veiled and by words or conduct

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23
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R v JOYCE (joint)

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Crown establish 2 or more persons physically present at time of robbery or violence

24
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R v GALEY

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2 or more persons common intention to use combined force in committing crime

25
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R v FORREST & FORREST

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Prosecution must adduce the best evidence to prove age

26
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R v WELLS

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Robbery - harm to anyone

No requirement the harm inflicted need be on on victim but includes person preventing escape too

27
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R v PACHOLKO

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Conduct of accused to be assessed not the strength of victims will

28
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R v WILSON

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Tenancy = interest in property

29
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R v WELLARD

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Essence of kidnapping = deprivation of liberty and taking away from where victim wants to be

30
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R v CROSSAN (kidnap)

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Taking away and detaining are seperate distinct offences “different”.
1st = taking victim away
2nd = detaining her

31
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R v PRYCE

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Detaining = keep in confinement or custody

32
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R v COX (sex and kidnapping)

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Consent must be “full, free, voluntary and informed, freely/voluntarily given by person in position to form rational judgement

33
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R v MOHI

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Abduction committed at time of taking away with necessary intent

34
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R v STRAWBRIDGE

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Presumed guilty knowledge, crown not need to prove unless defence raised accused honestly believed innocent act

35
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R v EMERALI

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Useable quantity - Possession not minute and useless residue

36
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SAXTON v POLICE

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Import = bring in from foreign country

37
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R v HANCOX (drugs)

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Importation exists from time goods enter NZ until they available to the consignee or addressee

38
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R v RUA

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Creation of controlled drugs by process changing original substance into controlled drug

39
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R V DURING

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Offer = intimation they ready on request to supply drugs to person

40
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R v BROWN

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Intent the intimation is understood as genuine

41
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HAYES v R

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Pecuniary advantage = Anything that enhances accused’s financial position

Valuable consideration = anything capable of being so, in short money or moneys worth

Unsuccessful use of a document is as much use as a successful one. Attempt relates to use not to obtaining a pecuniary advantage

42
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R v MISIC

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Document is Thing provides evidence/info/record

43
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R v MORLEY (deception)

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Intention to deceive requires deception in order to deceive affected party and intent exists at that time

44
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R v LOVE

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Deliberate failure to disclose material by a person who has a duty to disclose

45
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MULCAHY v R

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Conspiracy consists of intention 2 or more to agree to do an unlawful act and when those 2 agree to carry it out the plot is an act in itself

46
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R v WILCOX

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Attempts

Defendant must have begun to perpetrate the crime

47
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R v HARPUR

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Attempts

Full evaluation of conduct of accused time place and circumstance less focus on abstract tests of preparation and proximity

48
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R v BRIGGS

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Knowledge may be inferred from wilful blindness or dileberate absence of inquiries to the truth

49
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R v PEKEPO

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PEKEPO = pew pew intent
(Intent to shoot victim)

Reckless discharge of firearm towards passerby insufficient. Intent to shoot person must be established

50
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POLICE v PARKER

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Peter Parker- any manna (manner)
(Use in any manner whatever)

Using in any manner think of short of shooting weapon. Presenting gun is equivalent or the same thing

51
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R v KELT

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Kelt - on ya belt
(Firearm with him)

With hun requires close physics link and a degree of immediate control over the weapon

52
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TULI v POLICE

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TULI - to do prima facie

Circumstances sufficiently show an intent in absence evidence to the contrary

53
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R v KOROHEKE

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Genitalia

Comprises the reproduction organs, interior and exterior, includes vulva/labia both interior and exterior at the opening of vagina

54
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R v GUTUAMA

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Gucci shoes of accused

The objective test - crown must prove no reasonable person in shoes of accused could have thought complainant was consenting

55
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R v COURT

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Caught being indecent by right ppl

Indecency= conduct that right thinking people will consider an affront to the sexual modesty of the complainant

56
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R v LEESON

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Indecency

An assault accompanied with circumstances of indecency