R v Lavender

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
JudgeGleeson CJ,McHugh,Gummow,Hayne JJ,Kirby J,Callinan J,Heydon J
Judgment Date04 August 2005
Neutral Citation[2005] HCA 37,2005-0408 HCA A,2005-0804 HCA B
CourtHigh Court
Docket NumberS499/2004
Date04 August 2005
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90 cases
  • James v R
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 5 Marzo 2014
    ...v The Queen (1969) 122 CLR 444 at 449–451 per Barwick CJ, 453–454 per Kitto J, 462–463 per Windeyer J; [1969] HCA 68; R v Lavender (2005) 222 CLR 67 at 77–78 [24]–[26], 82 [38], 83–84 [42]–[44] per Gleeson CJ, McHugh, Gummow and Hayne JJ; [2005] HCA 37; and see Snelling, ‘The Alternative Ve......
  • King v The Queen
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 12 Febrero 2012
    ...at 379–380 [22]. 18 (2011) 57 MVR 373 at 379–380 [22]. 19 (2011) 57 MVR 373 at 380 [23]. 20 (1992) 174 CLR 313; [1992] HCA 31.See also R v Lavender (2005) 222 CLR 67 at 82 [37] and [38] per Gleeson CJ, McHugh, Gummow and Hayne JJ; [2005] HCA 21 (1992) 174 CLR 313 at 333 per Mason CJ, Tooh......
  • Stevens v Kabushiki Kaisha Sony Computer Entertainment
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 6 Octubre 2005
    ...253 at 279. See also Chief Executive Officer of Customs v El Hajje (2005) 79 ALJR 1289 at 1304 [74]; 218 ALR 457 at 477; R v Lavender (2005) 79 ALJR 1337 at 1354–1355 [93]–[95]; 218 ALR 521 at 176 As well, prosecutions under these penal provisions of the Copyright Act have been relatively r......
  • Coventry v Charter Pacific Corporation Ltd
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 15 Noviembre 2005
    ...in Charter Pacific Corporation Ltd v Belrida Enterprises Pty Ltd (2003) 179 FLR 438 at 460 [80]. 75 See discussion in R v Lavender (2005) 79 ALJR 1337 at 1350 [69]; 218 ALR 521 at 76 See eg Groom v Crocker [1939] 1 KB 194 at 205; Hawkins v Clayton (1988) 164 CLR 539 at 574; cf Australian Kn......
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3 firm's commentaries
  • Updates from the courts in relation to medical manslaughter and gross negligence
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 18 Mayo 2018
    ...(as decided in R v Adomako [1995] 1 AC 171, 182) Australia (as decided in R v Taktak (1988) 14 NSWLR 226, 250; The Queen v Lavender [2005] HCA 37) The defendant owed the victim a duty of care The defendant owed the victim a duty of care The defendant breached that duty of care The defendant......
  • The offence of Involuntary Manslaughter under New South Wales Law
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 9 Febrero 2023
    ...risk that death or grievous bodily harm would follow that the doing of the act merited criminal punishment." In Lavender v The Queen (2005) 222 CLR 67, the High Court found that the degree of negligence that must be proven must be at least as high as Applying the circumstances of the Baldwi......
  • Criminal offences relating to filicide in New South Wales
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 3 Abril 2022
    ...and involved such a high risk that death or really serious bodily harm would follow as a result of it. In Lavender v The Queen (2005) 222 CLR 67, the High Court found that the degree of negligence must be at least as high as Australian courts have been loath to impose positive obligations o......
8 books & journal articles
  • Unlawful and Dangerous
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 81-2, April 2017
    • 1 Abril 2017
    ...of Australia.148. Mason CJ, Toohey, Gaudron and McHugh JJ at [49].149. [1968] VR 481, Supreme Court of Victoria.150. Ibid. at [32].151. [2005] HCA 37; (2005) 222 CLR 67, High Court of Australia (Gleeson CJ, McHugh, Gummow and Hayne JJ at [128]).152. [2012] HCA 35.153. M. O’Reilly, ‘The Law ......
  • Bad Character Evidence and Reprehensible Behaviour
    • United Kingdom
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 12-2, April 2008
    • 1 Abril 2008
    ...at [11], [16]; RvSaleem [2007] EWCA Crim 1923 at[22]–[23]; RvB[2008] EWCA Crim 4 at [29].98 [2007] EWCA Crim 1472 at [24].99 RvLavender (2005) 222 CLR 67 at [107].100 Munday, above n. 6 at 42.101 Waugh vKippen (1986) 160 CLR 156 at 165. See also Glanville Williams, ‘Statutory Interpretation......
  • The never-ending challenge of drafting and interpreting statutes - a meditation on the career of John Finemore QC.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 36 No. 1, April 2012
    • 1 Abril 2012
    ...CLR 252, 265 [33] (French CJ, Gummow, Hayne, Crennan and Kiefel JJ). (119) Palgo (2005) 221 CLR 249, 265 [40] (Kirby J); R v Lavender (2005) 222 CLR 67, 89 [69] (Kirby J); Australian Finance Direct Ltd v Director of Consumer Affairs Victoria (2002) 234 CLR 96, 113 [36] (Kirby J); Minister A......
  • Outside the Text: Inside the use of Extrinsic Materials in Statutory Interpretation
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 42-2, June 2014
    • 1 Junio 2014
    ...‘Some Reflections on the Reading of Statutes’ (1947) 47 Columbia Law Review 527, 541. 167 To paraphrase Kirby J in R v Lavender (2005) 222 CLR 67 , 102 [109] who said: ‘If context is important for statutory co nstruction, why is it not always important?’. 356 Federal Law Review Volume 42 __......
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