The Implications of Uncertainty in the Law of Criminal Causation for the One-Punch Homicide Offence in Western Australia
This article considers s 281 of the Criminal Code (WA), which was introduced in 2008 to create an offence ofunlawful assault causing death and to exclude the defence of accident (and the test of reasonableforeseeability) in those cases. The author argues that, given the ‘unfixed’ state of the common...
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Bond University
2015-12-01
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| Series: | Bond Law Review |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.53300/001c.5632 |
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