Liabilities Flashcards
Conspiracy Liability
Conspiracy
Section 310, crimes Act 1961
conspires
with any person
to commit any offence
or to do or omit, in any part of the world,
anything of which the doing or omission in New Zealand would be an offence.
Accessory after the fact liability
Accessory after the fact
Section 71, Crimes act 1961
knowing any person to have been a party to the offence,
receives, comforts, or assists that person or tampers with or actively suppresses any evidence against him,
in order to enable him to escape after arrest or to avoid arrest or conviction.
Perjury liability
Perjury
Section 108, Crimes Act 1961
an assertion as to a matter of fact, opinion, belief, or knowledge
made by a witness in a judicial proceeding as part of his evidence on oath,
whether the evidence is given in open Court or by affidavit or otherwise,
that assertion being known to the witness to be false and being intended by him to mislead the tribunal holding the proceeding.
Receiving Liability
Receiving
Section 246, Crimes Act 1961
receives any property stolen or obtained by any other imprisonable offence,
knowing that property to have been stolen or so obtained, or being reckless as to whether or not the property had been stolen or so obtained.