Robbery Liabilities

Question 1

Robbery

Answer 1

s234 Crimes Act 1961
Robbery is
Theft 
accompanied by violence or threats of violence
to any person or property
used to extort the property stolen 
or 
to prevent or overcome resistance to it's being stolen

Question 2

Dishonestly

Answer 2

an act or omission, done or omitted without belief that there was expressed or implied consent to, or authority for, the act or omission from a person entitled to give such consent

Question 3

Claim of right

Answer 3

a belief at the time of the act in a proprietary or possessory right to property in relation to which the offence is alleged to have been committed, although that belief may be based on ignorance or mistake of fact or of any matter of law other than the enactment against which the offence is alleged to have been committed

Question 4

R v SKIVINGTON

Answer 4

Theft is an element of robbery, and if the honest belief that a man has a claim of right is a defence to larceny, then it negatives one of the elements in the offence of robbery, without proof of which the full offence is not made out.

Question 5

R v Lapier

Answer 5

Robbery is complete the instant the property is taken, even if possession by the thief is only momentary