Criminal Defences in Australia, 5th Edition

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A well respected and widely cited analysis of the defences available in answer to criminal offences in all jurisdictions of Australia.

Criminal Defences in Australia is a well-respected work on the market, and has been cited and referred to in practitioner and academic circles.

Extensively revised and updated, Criminal Defences in Australia (5th edition) provides a comprehensive analysis of the defences to criminal prosecutions both at common law and under statute in all jurisdictions of Australia. The various defences are described in detail, together with the circumstances under which they can be raised and how several defences can be combined. The inter-relationship of the defences is also fully explored, with an eye to jurisdictional differences. It also includes additional analysis of Infanticide and Infancy as well as touching upon the Commonwealth Criminal Code.

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• Authoritative, scholarly and comprehensive
• Unique approach to criminal defences - the focus of the work rather than incidental to coverage of offences
• Cited in Australian courts and overseas

1. Criminal Defences: An Overview
2. Mistake of Fact
3. Ignorance and Mistake of Law
4. Claim of right
5. Consent
6. Necessity or Emergency
7. Impossibility
8. Duress, Compulsion and Coercion
9. Superior Orders
10. Defensive Force
11. Provocation
12. Domestic Abuse
13. Intoxication
14. Insanity
15. Automatism
16. Diminished Responsibility
17. Infanticide
18. Infancy

Paul Fairall is the Foundation Dean of Law with responsibility for establishing law as a central discipline within the Curtin Business School. He previously served as Foundation Dean of Law at the University of South Australia (2007 - 2011), Dean of Law at the University of Adelaide from (2002- 2006) and Dean of Law at James Cook University (1995 – 2001). He is a former Chair of the Council of Australian Law Deans and a Director of the Australian Academy of Law.

Malcolm Barrett is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Law Cairns Campus, Faculty of Law, Business & the Creative Arts at James Cook University. He lectures in the areas of Criminal Law, Human Rights Law and International Law.