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Criminal law – Manslaughter - Unlawful and dangerous act - Accessorial liability - Requisite mental element - Procurement of assault - Adequacy of directions on nature of assault procured - Directions framed according to issues at trial. Appeal – Criminal …

Evidence – Criminal trial – Sexual offences with child under 16 years – Tendency evidence – Admissibility – Severance – Where evidence of complainant as to 17 sexual acts and several uncharged sexual acts admitted as tendency evidence – Where evidence of …

Criminal law – Appeal against conviction – Identification evidence – Where victim's identification of accused on photoboard admitted at trial – Where police conveyed to victim that photograph of suspect would be on photoboard – Where victim had made …

Criminal law – Criminal procedure – Jury directions – Standard of proof – Where jury directed that Crown required to prove accused's guilt not beyond any doubt but beyond reasonable doubt – Whether such direction error of law – Whether such direction …

Criminal law – Practice and procedure - Permanent stay of proceedings on indictment - Threshold for grant of permanent stay - Respondents charged with reckless operation of aircraft - Electronic records of event giving rise to charge overwritten - Delay …

Criminal law – Appeal against conviction – Where cannabis and drug paraphernalia found at four properties including respondent's home – Where $120,800 in cash found at respondent's home – Where respondent charged with cultivation and trafficking of …

Criminal Law – Jurisdiction – Exercise of federal jurisdiction by state Supreme Courts – Offences against laws of the Commonwealth – Where s 350 of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 (SA) provides for the Full Court of the Supreme Court of South …

Criminal law – Rape - Mens rea - Directions to jury - Complainant penetrated anally while asleep - No evidence and no assertion that accused believed complainant consenting - Trial judge directed jury that mental element of offence in s 38(2)(a)(i) of …

Criminal law – Sentence – Irrelevant consideration – Where respondent pleaded guilty to murder contrary to common law and to infanticide and attempted murder contrary to ss 6(1) and 321M of Crimes Act 1958 (Vic) respectively – Where primary judge …

Criminal law – Evidence – Unsworn evidence – Where respondent convicted following trial in Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory of commission of act of indecency in presence of daughter, R – Where R six years old when giving evidence – Where …

Criminal law – Criminal appeals – The respondent appealed to the Court of Appeal of the Australian Capital Territory against his conviction for murder – The Court of Appeal quashed the conviction and entered verdict of acquittal – Whether Court of Appeal …

Criminal law – Incitement – Aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring – Criminal Code 2002 (ACT), ss 45, 47 – Where respondent charged with offence of incitement – Where prosecution alleged that respondent intentionally urged another person to procure …