Kaporonovski v R

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Neutral Citation1973-0912 HCA A,[1973] HCA 35
Year1973
Date1973
CourtHigh Court
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25 cases
  • Enforcement Pursuant to Constitution s57; Application by Gabriel Dusava
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Supreme Court
    • 27 October 1998
    ...see SCR No 6 of 1984; Re Provocation [1985] PNGLR 31. In PLAR No 1 of 1980 [1980] PNGLR 326 Wilson J said at 331: "In Kaporonovski v R (1973) 133 CLR 209 at 222–3) Walsh J stated: "I recognise that that view gives a restricted operation to s269. It is said also that it produces a capricious......
  • Royall v R
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • Invalid date
  • Povey v Qantas Airways Ltd
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 23 June 2005
    ...of a person that cause harm to another may constitute an ‘accident’ where the harm was not intended or reasonably foreseeable. In Kaporonovski v The Queen, Gibbs J said 66 that ‘[i]t must now be regarded as settled that an event occurs by accident within the meaning of the rule if it was a ......
  • Patel v R
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 24 August 2012
    ...445. 18Referring to Griffiths v The Queen (1994) 69 ALJR 77 at 79; 125 ALR 545 at 547; [1994] HCA 55. 19 Referring to, inter alia, Kaporonovski v The Queen (1973) 133 CLR 209; [1973] HCA 35. 20 As to which see Callaghan v The Queen (1952) 87 CLR 115 at 119–121. 21 The other ground related ......
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4 books & journal articles
  • The Defence of Duress Under the Criminal Code (WA)
    • Australia
    • University of Western Australia Law Review No. 43-1, January 2018
    • 1 January 2018
    ...provision so that it is consistent with the language and purpose of all the provisions of 35 Ibid 263. See also Kaporonovski v The Queen [1973] HCA 35; (1973) 133 CLR 209, 236 (Gibbs J; Stephen J agreeing); Stuart v The Queen [1974] HCA 54; (1974) 134 CLR 426, 437 (Gibbs J; Mason J agreeing......
  • Book Review: Handbook of Criminal Justice Evaluation
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminology (formerly Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology) No. 15-4, December 1982
    • 1 December 1982
    ...181) in whichtheSupremeCourtdeclinedto followtheHighCourtof Australia decision in Kaporonovski vR(1973) 1 ALR 296;47 ALJR 472 onthequestion ofwhetherprovocation is available as acompletedefence to manslaughter.TheSupremeCourtdiscussed atlengthKaporonovski'scase,onewhichmustbe regarded as an......
  • Book Review: Criminal Law and Practice of Papua New Guinea
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminology (formerly Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology) No. 15-4, December 1982
    • 1 December 1982
    ...181) in whichtheSupremeCourtdeclinedto followtheHighCourtof Australia decision in Kaporonovski vR(1973) 1 ALR 296;47 ALJR 472 onthequestion ofwhetherprovocation is available as acompletedefence to manslaughter.TheSupremeCourtdiscussed atlengthKaporonovski'scase,onewhichmustbe regarded as an......
  • Social and cultural meanings of legal responses to homicide among men: Masculine honour, sexual advances and accidents
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminology (formerly Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology) No. 45-3, December 2012
    • 1 December 2012
    ...for an event that is unintended and unforeseen and would not have rea-sonably been foreseeable by the ordinary person (Kaporonovki v R (1973) 133 CLR 209),and presumably that ‘person’ in criminal law is an ordinary male (Lee, 2003). Althoughinitially enacted in the late 19th and early 20th ......

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