Category: Homicide
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In Armitage v Parole Board Queensland (2023) 17 QR 297, the Queensland 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 skeletal remains were likely destroyed by fire or animal predation. One of the key issues was the meaning of “remains”.
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In Royall v The Queen (1991) 172 CLR 378, the High Court upheld Royall’s murder conviction. Royall’s actions were the “substantial or significant cause” of the victim’s response of jumping to her death, maintaining the chain of causation.
