Category: Statutory Interpretation
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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 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 of grievous bodily harm.
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In Cobb v Queensland Police Service (2023) 3 QDCR 123, the Court held that a mobile phone constitutes a “computer” for the purposes of s 408E of the Criminal Code Act 1899 (Qld) — unauthorised access to a password-protected mobile phone amounted to misuse of a “restricted computer”.
