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Zecevic v Director Ofpublic Prosecutions (Victoria)

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JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Neutral Citation1987-0701 HCA B,[1987] HCA 26
Date1987
CourtHigh Court
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74 cases
  • England v R
    • Australia
    • Federal Court
    • Invalid date
  • R v Clegg
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • January 19, 1995
    ...understanding them. As a result, a full court of seven judges was convened to reconsider the position in Zecevic v. D.P.P. (Victoria) (1987) 162 C.L.R. 645. The High Court decided by a majority of five to two to revert to the law as stated in Palmer and McInnes, and declined to follow Howe ......
  • Taiapa v The Queen
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • December 16, 2009
    ...29Marwey v The Queen (1977) 138 CLR 630 at 638. 30R v Muratovic [1967] Qd R 15 at 20 per Gibbs J, cited with approval in Zecevic v Director of Public Prosecutions (Vict) (1987) 162 CLR 645 at 665 per Wilson, Dawson and Toohey JJ; [1987] HCA 26. 31 Glanville Williams, Textbook of Criminal L......
  • R v Keenan
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • February 2, 2009
    ...716 at 722. 54 cf Vallance v The Queen (1961) 108 CLR 56 at 75–76; [1961] HCA 42. 55 Zecevic v Director of Public Prosecutions (Vict) (1987) 162 CLR 645 at 665 ; [1987] HCA 56 (1997) 188 CLR 1 at 32. 57 [2007] QCA 440 at [41]. 58 (2006) 227 CLR 373 at 397 [76]; [2006] HCA 34. 59 [1966] 2 Q......
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13 books & journal articles
  • ENLARGED PANELS IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF SINGAPORE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2019, December 2019
    • December 1, 2019
    ...v The Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration (1912) 15 CLR 586 at 606; Zecevic v Director of Public Prosecutions (Victoria) (1987) 162 CLR 645 at 664–665. 113 Aoraki Corp Ltd v McGavin [1998] 3 NZLR 276. 114 Ward v James [1966] 1 QB 273; Doherty v Birmingham City Council [2009] ......
  • The Development of the High Court's Willingness to Overrule Common Law Precedent
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 45-2, June 2017
    • June 1, 2017
    ...the narrower approach in the Privy Council’s 1971 decision in Palmer v The Queen,102 which had until then been 91 (1978) 141 CLR 88. 92 (1987) 162 CLR 645. 93 (1991) 171 CLR 468. 94 (1978) 144 CLR 202. 95 (1980) 146 CLR 1. 96 (2008) 236 CLR 510. 97 (1995) 185 CLR 307. This case overturned t......
  • Excessive self-defence and criminal liability
    • South Africa
    • Juta South African Criminal Law Journal No. , May 2019
    • May 24, 2019
    ...271 and 272 of the Queensland Criminal Code, ss 248 and 249 of the Criminal Code of Western Australia. And see Zecevic (1987) 61 ALJR 375, 162 CLR 645; Dziduch (1990) 47 A Crim R 378. And see D O'Connor & PA Fairall, Criminal Defences (1996) 191. Consider also the American Model Penal Code,......
  • The Paradox of Disallowing Duress as a Defence to Murder
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 78-1, February 2014
    • February 1, 2014
    ...[1981] VR 587; Da Costa v The Queen (1968) 118 CLR 186; R v Howe (1958) 100 CLR 448, but see Zecevic v Director of Public Prosecutions (1987) 71 ALR 641, a case in which the High Court abolished the doctrine under Australian common law doctrine). By virtue of statutes in South Australia, Ne......
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