Burns v The Queen
| Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
| Judge | FRENCH CJ,Gummow,Hayne,Crennan,Kiefel,Bell JJ,Heydon J |
| Judgment Date | 14 September 2012 |
| Neutral Citation | [2012] HCA 35,2012-0914 HCA C |
| Court | High Court |
| Docket Number | S46/2012 |
| Date | 14 September 2012 |
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3 books & journal articles
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Unlawful and Dangerous
...have been obtained using the crimes of procuring2. [1830] 1 Lew CC 179.3. (1883) 15 Cox CC 163.4. [1967] 2 QB 981.5. Ibid. at 988.6. [2012] HCA 35, High Court of Australia.7. Ibid. at [8].8. See e.g. T[2006] 7 WWR 102; 199 CCC (3d) 551; 31 CR (6th) 187; 195 Man R (2d) 89, Manitoba Court of ......
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Protecting Older Persons From Life-Threatening and Fatal Abuse: Should Western Australian Criminal Law Do More?
...43Criminal Code Act Compilation Act 1913 (WA) ss 285-290. 44For example, see Burns v The Queen [2012] HCA 35; R v Taktak (1988) 34 A Crim R 334. 45A survey of reported decisions indicates that most concern these sections – see, eg, Brightwater Care Group (Inc) v Rossiter [2009] WASC 229; He......
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‘Factual causation’ and ‘scope of liability’: What's the difference?
...Knobe, n 133 above, 598.175 Feinberg, Doing and Deserving: Essays in the Theory of Responsibility (1970) 166, quoted in Burns vThe Queen [2012] HCA 35 at [85] (Gummow, Hayne, Crennan, Kiefel and Bell JJ).176 Similar to this is the ‘act of God’ notion in cases where the causal chain leading ......