Principles of Criminal Law in Queensland and Western Australia

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by  Thomas Crofts, Kelley Burton, Stella Tarrant

PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL
LAW IN QUEENSLAND
AND WESTERN
AUSTRALIA
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PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL
LAW IN QUEENSLAND
AND WESTERN
AUSTRALIA
Kelley Burton
BBus(Accy)(Dist)/LLB(Hons) GradDipLegalPrac
LLM (QUT) PhD (USQ)
Associate Professor, School of Law and Criminology,
University of the Sunshine Coast
Thomas Crofts
LLB(Hons) (Lond) LLM (Wuerzburg)
Dr iur (Frankf/O)
Professor, School of Law and Department of Social and
Behavioural Science, City University of Hong Kong
Stella Tarrant
B Juris (Hon) LLB (UWA), LLM (Yale)
Associate Professor, Law School, University of Western Australia
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REVISED PREFACE
TO THE THIRD EDITION
We aspire to engage students of the criminal law in Queensland and Western
Australia by explaining and applying its fundamental principles. The Codes
in Queensland and Western Australia are explored together in this text
because they stem from the Griffith Code, which was enacted in 1899 and
1913, respectively. While the criminal law in these jurisdictions has been
dynamic, the core principles are identical in the 21st century.
Where appropriate this text illustrates complex principles with diagrams
and tables. Each chapter systematically embodies an elements toolbox, which
identifies the elements of an offence, defence or excuse.
The guides to problem solving are student- centred because they equip
law students with the ability to apply their knowledge of the criminal law
to real world scenarios.
The revision questions and answers provide law students with a means
of monitoring their understanding of the criminal law, while the problem
questions and answers motivate students by supplying them with instant and
worthwhile feedback on their ability to apply the criminal law to a problem.
The critical thinking questions encourage students to reflect on the
criminal law and drive curiosity about how the criminal law could be
continuously improved.
This text manifests the collaborative combination of our considerable
discipline expertise. Dr Kelley Burton was responsible for writing chapters 2,
3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15 and 16; Professor Thomas Crofts was responsible for
writing chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 12; and Associate Professor Stella Tarrant
was responsible for chapters 7 and 13.
Dr Kelley Burton sincerely thanks Brian ‘Daniel’ O’Connell, Research
Assistant, School of Law and Criminology, University of the Sunshine
Coast, for leading a growing tree approach and significantly contributing
to chapters 2 (Queensland parts), 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15 and 16, in the third
edition of this book; and for working so diligently, both independently and
“in company”.
We would like to thank our teachers, mentors, colleagues and students for
inspiring our writing and the evolution of this text.
We sincerely thank Lawbook Co, particularly Liz Gandy and Abinaya
Sivarasu, for their patience, and for ameliorating the editing and publication
process.
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Last, but certainly not least, we give our heartfelt thanks and wishes to our
family and friends for their constant and unconditional support.
The Queensland and Western Australian criminal law discussed in this
text is current as at December 2019.
KELLEY BURTON
THOMAS CROFTS
STELLA TARRANT
April 2020
CONTENTS
Preface .................................................................................................................v
Table of Cases .......................................................................................................ix
Table of Statutes .................................................................................................xxiii
1 Introduction ............................................................................................................1
2 Procedure ...............................................................................................................11
3 Double Jeopardy – Double Prosecution and Double Punishment .................61
4 Fatal Offences ......................................................................................................107
5 Non- fatal Offences ..............................................................................................155
6 Sexual Offences ...................................................................................................189
7 Property Offences ...............................................................................................227
8 Drug Offences .....................................................................................................277
9 Provocation, Diminished Responsibility, Extraordinary
Emergency and Duress ......................................................................................319
10 Self- defence .........................................................................................................365
11 Acts Independent of Will and Accident............................................................397
12 Insanity, Intoxication and Immaturity .............................................................419
13 Honest Claim of Right to Property and Mistake of Fact ..............................443
14 Attempts ..............................................................................................................467
15 Conspiracies and Parties ....................................................................................489
16 Sentencing ...........................................................................................................527
Index .............................................................................................................................553
TABLE OF CASES
A
Attorney- General’s Reference (No 1) [1975] QB 773 .............................................[15.70]
Attorney- General (Qld) v Bosanquet [2012] QCA 367 .........................................[12.140]
Aubertin v Western Australia (2006) 33 WAR 87; [2006] WASCA 229 .....[6.150], [12.150],
[13.180], [13.240]
B
BRK v The Queen [2001] WASCA 161 .................................................................[6.140]
Barbaro v The Queen; Zirilli v The Queen [2014] HCA 2 ......................................[16.10]
Barca v The Queen (1975) 133 CLR 82 .................................................................[11.80]
Bardsley v The Queen (2004) 29 WAR 338; [2004] WASCA 251 ............................[15.60]
Barker v The Queen (1983) 153 CLR 338 ..............................................................[7.320]
Barlow v Dale (1993) CA 406 ..................................................................................[8.65]
Batty v Attorney General (Northern Ireland) [1963] AC 386 ...................................[12.40]
Blackfoot Corporation v Locker [1948] 1 KB 349 ..................................................[13.20]
Bolitho v Western Australia (2007) 34 WAR 215 ............................[7.430], [7.450], [7.580]
Borg v The Queen [1972] WAR 194 ......................................................................[15.55]
Boughey v The Queen (1986) 161 CLR 10 .......................................[1.40], [4.300], [5.40]
Bowman v The Queen [1980] WAR 65 ....................................................................[7.40]
Brady v Schatzel [1911] St R Qd 206 .......................................................................[5.30]
Braysich v The Queen (2011) 243 CLR 434 ...........................................................[6.150]
Brightwater Care Group (Inc) v Rossiter (2009) 40 WAR 84 ..................................[4.180]
Britten v Alpogut (1986) 23 A Crim R 254 ..........................................................[14.100]
Brown v Blake [2000] WASCA 132 ..........................................................................[5.80]
Brown v Deveroux (2008) 192 A Crim R 190; [2008] WASC 299 ..........................[7.450]
Bruce v The Queen (1987) 74 ALR 219 .................................................................[7.130]
Buttigieg v The Queen (1993) 69 A Crim R 21 .....................................................[9.160]
C
C v Director of Public Prosecutions [1995] UKHL 15; [1996] AC 1 ......................[12.160]
Callaghan v The Queen (1952) 87 CLR 115 .............................................[4.180], [4.360]
Cameron v The Queen (2002) 209 CLR 339 ............................................[16.70], [16.80]
Campbell v The Queen [1981] WAR 286 .................................................................[4.80]
Campbell v The Queen [2014] NSWCCA 175 .......................................................[4.285]
Clemesha v The Queen [1978] WAR 193 ...............................................................[7.460]
Cockram v Western Australia [2010] WASC 211 .....................................................[2.170]
Connolly v Meagher; Ex parte Connolly (1906) 3 CLR 682 ......................[3.130], [3.140]
Cooper v McKenna [1960] Qd R 406 .........................................[11.30], [12.40], [12.100]
Corker v Western Australia (2004) 146 A Crim R 33 ..............................................[10.90]
Corruption and Crime Commission v Moodie [2009] WASCA 72 .........................[7.450]
Couzens v The State of Western Australia [2019] WASCA 54 .........................[4.70], [4.90]
Cutter v The Queen (1997) 94 A Crim R 152; [1997] HCA 7 ...................[11.80], [14.30]
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D
D v Edgar [2019] WASC 183 ..................................................................................[7.370]
DPP v K [1990] 1 WLR 1067 ..................................................................................[5.20]
DPP (No 1 of 1993) (1993) 66 A Crim R 259 ..........................................................[6.80]
Daniels v The Queen (1989) 1 WAR 435 ..............................................................[13.180]
Darkan v The Queen (2006) 227 CLR 373; [2006] HCA 34 ......................[15.60], [15.70]
Davies v Western Australia (2005) 30 WAR 31 ..........................................................[8.60]
Day v The Queen (1995) 81 A Crim R 60 ....................................[15.10], [15.13], [15.15]
Dearnley v The King [1947] St R Qd 51; (1947) 41 QJPR 71 ..............................[12.130]
Devine v The Queen (1983) 8 A Crim R 45 .............................................[5.170], [5.280]
Donnelly v Rose [1995] 1 Qd R 148 .......................................................................[8.65]
Donovan v The State of Western Australia [2017] WASCA 170 ..............................[12.100]
Drago v The Queen (1992) 63 A Crim R 59 .................................[6.210], [6.220], [6.300]
Dudley v Ballantyne [1998] WASCA 169 ................................................................[9.250]
E
EAGD v Western Australia (No 2) [2014] WASCA 68 .............................................[15.60]
Elwin v Robinson [2014] WASCA 46 .....................................................................[2.110]
English v The Queen (1993) 68 A Crim R 96 ......................................................[14.100]
Evans v The State of Western Australia [2010] WASCA 34 ..........................[9.210], [12.90]
F
Fox v Beringer [2011] WASC 38 ..............................................................................[2.40]
G
GJ Coles & Co Ltd v Goldsworthy [1985] WAR 183 ...............[13.160], [13.170], [13.180]
Galea v The Queen (1989) 46 A Crim R 158 .........................................................[7.280]
George v Rockett [1990] HCA 26; (1990) 170 CLR 104 ............................[2.20], [2.240]
Geraldton Fisherman’s Co- op v Munro [1963] WAR 129 .....................................[13.220]
Gibbon v Pepper (1695) 2 Salk 637 ..........................................................................[5.20]
Gibson v Wales [1983] 1 WLR 393 .........................................................................[7.190]
Giorgianni v The Queen (1985) 16 A Crim R 163 .................................................[15.55]
Goodwyn v Western Australia [2013] WASCA 141 ................................................[10.120]
Gough v Rees (1929) 46 TLR 103 .........................................................................[15.70]
Graham v The Queen (2016) 333 ALR 447 ............................................................[10.80]
Green v Western Australia [2011] WASCA 178 ........................................................[2.170]
Greene v The Queen (1997) 191 CLR 334 .........................[9.90], [9.150], [9.170], [9.250]
Griffiths v The Queen (1994) 76 A Crim R 164 .....................................................[4.340]
Grills v Ng [2000] WASCA 294 ..............................................................................[3.150]
H
H v Western Australia (2006) 163 A Crim R 151; [2006] WASCA 53 ......................[16.70]
Hall v Fonceca [1983] WAR 309 ......................................................[5.50], [5.70], [5.130],
[5.280], [6.300]
Halley v The Crown (1938) 40 WALR 105 .............................................................[7.280]
Harkin v The Queen (1989) 38 A Crim R 296 .......................................................[6.210]