Self-defence / Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department, in consultation with the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration.

Canberra : Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department, 2002.

199361

Australia. -- Criminal Code Act 1995.

Self-defence (Law) Australia.

Criminal law -- Australia.

Complete contents page: Preface

PART 2.1 - Purpose and application

Division 2

PART 2.2 - The elements of an offence

Division 3 - General

3.1 Elements

3.2 Establishing guilt in respect of offences

Division 4 - Physical elements

4.1 Physical elements

4.2 Voluntariness

4.3 Omissions

Division 5 - Fault elements

5.1 Fault elements

5.2 Intention

5.3 Knowledge

5.4 Recklessness

5.5 Negligence

5.6 Offences that do not specify fault elements

Division 6 - Cases where fault elements are not required

6.1 Strict liability

6.2 Absolute liability

PART 2.3 - Circumstances in which there is no criminal responsibility

Division 7 - Circumstances involving lack of capacity

7.1 Children under 10

7.2 Children over 10 but under 14

7.3 Mental impairment

Division 8 - Intoxication

8.1 Definition - self-induced intoxication

8.2 Intoxication (offences involving basic intent)

8.3 Intoxication (negligence as fault element)

8.4 Intoxication (relevance to defences)

8.5 Involuntary intoxication

Division 9 - Circumstances involving mistake or ignorance

9.1 Mistake or ignorance of fact (fault elements other than negligence)

9.2 Mistake of fact (strict liability)

9.3 Mistake or ignorance of statute law

9.4 Mistake or ignorance of subordinate legislation

9.5 Claim of right

Division 10 - Circumstances involving external factors

10.1 Intervening conduct or event

10.2 Duress

10.3 Sudden and extraordinary emergency

10.4 Self-defence

10.5 Lawful authority

PART 2.4 - Extensions of criminal liability

Division 11

11.1 Attempt

11.2 Complicity and Common Purpose

11.3 Innocent Agency

11.4 Incitement

11.5 Conspiracy

11.6 References in Acts to offences

PART 2.5 - Corporate criminal responsibility

Division 12

12.1 General principles

12.2 Physical elements

12.3 Fault elements other than negligence

12.4 Negligence

12.5 Mistake of fact (strict liability)

12.6 Intervening conduct or event

PART 2.6 - Proof of criminal responsibility

Division 13

13.1 Legal burden of proof - prosecution

13.2 Standard of proof - prosecution

13.3 Evidential burden of proof - defence

13.4 Legal burden of proof - defence

13.5 Standard of proof - defence

13.6 Use of averments

PART 2.7 - Geographical jurisdiction

14.1 Standard Geographical Jurisdiction

Division 15 - Extended geographical jurisdiction

15.1 Extended Geographical Jurisdiction Category A

15.2 Extended Geographical Jurisdiction Category B

15.3 Extended Geographical Jurisdiction Category C

15.4 Extended Geographical Jurisdiction Category D

16.1 Attorney-General's consent

16.2 When conduct taken to occur partly in Australia

16.3 Meaning of ‘Australia'

16.4 Result of Conduct.

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