You may not write to the parent of an Australian serviceman, who lost his life in the service of his country, and compare him to a pig and dirty animal. You may not call him a a murderer of civilians, and Adolph Hitler not inferior to him in moral merit. You may not refer to …
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Attempting crime
Defence practitioners have sometimes found all their efforts to cast doubt on the occurrence of an offence washed away in a contest by s 55 of the Magistrates' Court Act 1989. This provision allowed a Court, if not satisfied of the indictable offence charged, to find in the alternative an offence of attempting to commit …
R v Ververis & Ververis: incompetent cooks
The judgment of Maxwell P and Buchanan JA in R v Ververis & Ververis restates many familiar principles of sentencing. One that I was unaware of is that incompetent or flawed attempts to manufacture illicit drugs may be considered less serious than efforts with better prospects for success.There's logic to it. Offences under s 71AA, …
R v Ververis & Ververis: incompetent cooks
The judgment of Maxwell P and Buchanan JA in R v Ververis & Ververis restates many familiar principles of sentencing. One that I was unaware of is that incompetent or flawed attempts to manufacture illicit drugs may be considered less serious than efforts with better prospects for success.There's logic to it. Offences under s 71AA, …