Zecevic v Director Ofpublic Prosecutions (Victoria)

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
CourtHigh Court
Neutral Citation1987-0701 HCA B,[1987] HCA 26
Year1987
Date1987

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  • Momcilovic v The Queen
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 8 September 2011
    ...Ex parte Burd (1994) 68 ALJR 372 at 373; 120 ALR 193 at 194–195; [1994] HCA 11. 217 cf Zecevic v Director of Public Prosecutions (Vict) (1987) 162 CLR 645; [1987] HCA 218 [1977] VR 22. 219 [1977] VR 22 at 25. 220 cf Simpson v Attorney-General ( Baigent's Case) [1994] 3 NZLR 667 at 675–678, ......
  • DPP (Nt) v Wji
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 6 October 2004
    ...[1976] AC 182. 88R v McEwan [1979] 2 NSWLR 926. 89R v Brown (1975) 10 SASR 139. 90Zecevik v Director of Public Prosecutions (Vict) (1987) 162 CLR 645 at 91R v Barlow (1997) 188 CLR 1 at 31–33. See also R v Jervis [1993] 1 Qd R 643 at 670–671. 92 NT Criminal Code Act, s 5 (emphasis added). T......
  • Taiapa v The Queen
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 16 December 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......
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  • ENLARGED PANELS IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF SINGAPORE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2019, December - January 2019
    • 1 December 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] ......
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    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 45-2, June 2017
    • 1 June 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
    • 24 May 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
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    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 78-1, February 2014
    • 1 February 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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