Catchwords
Criminal law – Murder – Relationship between general Code provision establishing excuse from criminal responsibility and specific provision creating offence of murder – Whether accused must foresee death as a possible consequence of conduct – Principles of statutory construction – Relevance of common law in construction of Code.
Criminal Code (NT), ss 31, 162(1)(a).
Breedon v The Queen (1993) 3 NTLR 119.
Vallance v The Queen (1961) 108 CLR 56.