Criminal Law in Queensland & Western Australia - 6th Edition

This book provides a comprehensive set of materials on the criminal law and procedure of Queensland and Western Australia, with detailed analysis of the law and extracts from leading cases. It covers the Criminal Codes of the states and other significant state and Commonwealth legislation together with related decisions of the courts. Although primarily designed for university law students, it will also provide a convenient aid for legal practitioners.

Legislative reforms have required much re-writing in the chapters on murder and manslaughter, defensive force, provocation, compulsion and emergency, and committals and trials. There have also been a host of updates required by developments in the case-law. The new cases for this edition include the decisions of the High Court of Australia in Braysich (on evidentiary burdens), Pollock (on provocation), Taiapa (on compulsion), Keenan (on common purpose liability), Gedeon (on entrapment), Dupas (on prejudicial publicity) and White (on proceeds of crime).

Features
· A unique approach on the criminal law of Queensland and Western Australia
· Clear and succinct analysis of the relevant cases
· This book receives excellent feedback from the market, as for example ?excellent coverage of 'Procedures'
· Readers can focus on the relevant Codes and legislation of those two specific states
· The book presents a succinct illustration of the relevant point of each case
· The work gives a complete overview of all relevant aspects of Criminal Law and is being class-tested by a large number of students and lecturers