Criminal code provisions relating to responsibility, causation and onus of proof / John M. Morris.

[St Lucia, Qld.] : The author, 1967

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Criminal law -- Australia.

Criminal liability -- Australia.

Causation -- Australia.

Burden of proof -- Australia.

Part A: Three basic assumptions of fact

Part B: Harmful acts:

1. Four issues of justice

2. Justice and the criminality of behaviour

3. Justice and causation

4. Justice and the effectiveness of punishment

5. Group (a): incapacity to recognize a risk of behaviour

6. Group (b): ignorance of, or indifference to, the law

7. Group (c): incapacity to recognize absence of necessity

8. Group (d): mental abnormality

9. Group (e): induced mental abnormality (intoxication)

10. Group (f): strain

11. Group (g): miscellaneous qualities

12. Justice and the evil of punishment

13. The Influence of the civil law upon the criminal law

14. Procedures other than punishment

15. The Onus and standard of proof

Part C: Harmful omissions

Part D: Criminal behaviour

Part E: A Comparison of the types of class rendered liable to punishment

Part F: The Recommended sections.

A report submitted to the Chief Justices of Tasmania, Western Australia and Queensland re proposals as to what a model criminal code should contain relating to criminal responsibility, causation and onus of proof.

Includes loose letter from the author to the Hon Sir William Mack KBE (then Chief Justice of Queensland) dated 7th August 1967, and letter from the Hon Sir Gerard Brennan AC KBE to Mr Aladin Rahemtula, Supreme Court Librarian, dated 21 May 2002 detailing the historic significance of this work.

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