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  • The Esky Killer: No Body-No Parole Prisoner and Meaning of Remains
    13 November, 2025

    The Esky Killer: No Body-No Parole Prisoner and Meaning of Remains

    In Armitage v Parole Board Queensland (2023) 17 QR 297, the Court of Appeal reviewed the Parole Board’s decision to issue a ‘no cooperation declaration’ for a ‘no body-no parole prisoner’, where the victim’s remains…

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  • Grievous Bodily Harm: Disfigurement Remedied by Treatment
    2 October, 2025

    Grievous Bodily Harm: Disfigurement Remedied by Treatment

    In the matter of R v Lovell; Ex parte Attorney-General (Qld) [2015] QCA 136, the Court of Appeal considered whether a disfigurement subsequently medically repaired is capable of amounting to ‘serious disfigurement’ under the definition…

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  • Aiding Death: Criminal Responsibility, Causation, and Consent
    21 August, 2025

    Aiding Death: Criminal Responsibility, Causation, and Consent

    In Carter v Attorney-General (No 2) [2014] 1 Qd R 111, the appellant, a heroin user, aided the deaths of two persons who expressed a wish to die. The Court of Appeal considered whether s…

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  • Mobile Phone: Misuse of a ‘Restricted Computer’
    28 July, 2025

    Mobile Phone: Misuse of a ‘Restricted Computer’

    In Cobb v Queensland Police Service (2023) 3 QDCR 123, the Court considered whether a mobile phone constitutes a ‘computer’ for the purposes of s 408E of the Criminal Code and whether unauthorised access to…

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  • Lawyer Admission: Academic Misconduct and Plagiarism
    19 June, 2025

    Lawyer Admission: Academic Misconduct and Plagiarism

    In the matter of Re: AJG [2004] QCA 88, the applicant sought admission as a solicitor, after having engaged in substantial academic misconduct (plagiarism) during Practical Legal Training (PLT).

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  • False Imprisonment: No Reasonable Means of Escape
    17 June, 2025

    False Imprisonment: No Reasonable Means of Escape

    In Burton v Davies [1953] QSR 26, the defendant’s actions of driving at high speed preventing the plaintiff from leaving the vehicle, constituted false imprisonment, as the plaintiff had no reasonable means of escape.

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  • Sentencing Unlawful Stalking: Leaving Defamatory Notices
    25 May, 2025

    Sentencing Unlawful Stalking: Leaving Defamatory Notices

    In R v Morris [2010] QCA 315, the Court of Appeal considered whether the applicant’s sentence for unlawful stalking for posting defamatory notices—implicating the complainant as a murderer, was excessive.

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