O'Sullivan v Fisher

JurisdictionSouth Australia
Date1954
CourtSupreme Court of South Australia
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2 cases
  • R v Bezzina ; R v Codling ; R v Elvin
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 2 December 1993
    ...of Section 10 (3). In that context he invited our attention to the decision of the Supreme Court of South Africa in O'Sullivan v Fisher (1954) SASR 33 and the decision of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in Kilbride v Lake (1962) NZLR 590. That is, clearly, a problem which, in some particul......
  • R v Robinson-Pierre
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 20 December 2013
    ...There they "found" him, drunk. A similar conclusion was reached by Reed J sitting in the State Supreme Court of South Australia in O'Sullivan v Fisher [1954] St R 33 (SA). Professor Ormerod concludes that: "As a matter of principle, even 'state of affairs' offences ought to require proof th......
3 books & journal articles
  • Table of cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Sovereignty, Restraint, & Guidance. Canadian Criminal Law in the 21st Century
    • 25 June 2019
    ...v Sparling, [1960] SCR 804 ......................................................................................381 O’Sullivan v Fisher, [1954] SASR 33 (S Aust SC) ..................................................... 309, 323 Ohio v Shafei, 27 NE3d 593 (Ohio Sup Ct 1989) .......................
  • A More Modest Principle of Voluntariness
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Sovereignty, Restraint, & Guidance. Canadian Criminal Law in the 21st Century
    • 25 June 2019
    ...liberties. It is, rather, a limit built into 1 But see R v Larsonneur (1933), 24 Cr App R 74 (CCA) [ Larsonneur ]; O’Sullivan v Fisher , [1954] SASR 33 (S Aust SC) [ O’Sullivan ]. 2 R v Bouchard-Lebrun , 2011 SCC 58 at para 45 [ Bouchard-Lebrun ]. 3 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ,......
  • Rape in Victoria as a Crime of Absolute Liability: A Departure from Both Precedent and Progressivism
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 76-5, October 2012
    • 1 October 2012
    ...Pty Ltd vMcDonald [1971] 1 SASR 39 at 53 (Hogarth J); at 61 (SangsterAJ); Franklin v Stacey (1981) 27 SASR 490; O’Sullivan v Fisher [1954] SASR 33. Forcases in other jurisdictions see Lipshut vMcKay [1950] VLR 57 at 58; Bergin v Stack(1953) 88 CLR 248 at 261 (Fullagar J); at 273 (Kitto J); ......

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