An authoritative and comprehensive guide to Queensland and Western Australian criminal law.

Criminal Law in Queensland and Western Australia: Cases & Commentary addresses criminal law and procedure in Queensland and Western Australia through the most important case law. It covers the Criminal Codes of Queensland and Western Australia and other significant state and Commonwealth legislation together with related decisions of the courts. This edition provides updated references in light of amendments to legislation and recent case law.

This book provides a comprehensive set of materials on the criminal law and procedure of Queensland and Western Australia, with detailed analysis of the law and extracts from leading cases. It covers the Criminal Codes of the states and other significant state and Commonwealth legislation together with related decisions of the courts. Although primarily designed for university law students, it will also provide a convenient aid for legal practitioners. Legislative reforms have required much re-writing in the chapters on murder and manslaughter, defensive force, provocation, compulsion and emergency, and committals and trials. There have also been a host of updates required by developments in the case-law. The new cases for this edition include the decisions of the High Court of Australia in Braysich (on evidentiary burdens), Pollock (on provocation), Taiapa (on compulsion), Keenan (on common purpose liability), Gedeon (on entrapment), Dupas (on prejudicial publicity) and White (on proceeds of crime).

This book covers the Criminal Codes of Queensland and W Australia and other significant state and Commonwealth legislation together with related decisions of the courts. This edition provides updated references in most chapters in light of amendments to legislation and recent case law. OLeary, Colvin is at Bond Uni. McKechnie is at Murdoch Uni.

Criminal Law in Queensland and Western Australia: Cases and Commentary, 9th edition An authoritative and comprehensive guide to Queensland and Western Australian criminal law Criminal Law in Queensland and Western Australia 9th edition Essential introductory resource on criminal law in Queensland and Western Australia

Designed for LLB courses in criminal law in Queensland and Western Australia, this casebook examines the key concepts and principles of the Criminal Code and of other major state and Commonwealth offences. It contains an extended commentary for each chapter which reviews the applicable statutory provisions and highlights case readings.