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In R v Reid [2007] 1 Qd R 64, the appellant appealed their conviction of unlawfully transmitting a serious disease (HIV) with intent to do so, contrary to s 317(b) of the Criminal Code Act…
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In Queensland v Masson [2020] HCA 28, the High Court considered whether the State was liable in negligence for its paramedic’s omission to promptly administer Adrenaline to Masson, who sustained severe brain damage after an…
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In this special case Cherry v Queensland [2025] HCA 141, the High Court was questioned on the constitutional validity of Queensland’s ‘no body-no parole’ law. The plaintiff relied on the Kable principle, arguing that ss…
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In R v Willmot (No 2) [1985] 2 Qd R 41, the Court of Criminal Appeal considered whether the jury were misdirected on the element of intent in a murder conviction under s 302(1) of…
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In R v Falconer (1990) 171 CLR 30, the High Court considered whether evidence for a sane automatism defence was improperly excluded at trial, and whether a ‘dissociative state’ caused by severe emotional stress (from…
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In Stuart v The Queen (1974) 134 CLR 426, the High Court considered constructive murder (also known as felony murder), clarifying that conviction requires proof of an unlawful act endangering life, not intent to kill,…
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The tort of private nuisance is defined by the High Court in Hargrave v Goldman, per Windeyer J at 60, as ‘an unlawful interference with a person’s use or enjoyment of land or some right…
