LAW109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Grievous Bodily Harm, Eggshell Skull, Crimes Act 1900

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Law/Law Participation and Community Engagement
• Course: LAW109
• Professor: Dr Andrew Burke

Document Summary

Men represent approximately 64% of homicide victims and 85% of homicide offenders. Women are overrepresented as victims of intimate partner homicides (76%) Men are overrepresented in acquaintance (81%) and stranger homicide (85%) The rate of indigenous victimisation is 5 times higher than that of non-indigenous victimisation (4x the rate of offenders) For murder: human tissue act 1983 (nsw) s 33 (cid:858)a perso(cid:374) has died (cid:449)he(cid:374) there has occurred (a) irreversible cessation of all fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of the perso(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:271)rai(cid:374); or (cid:894)(cid:271)(cid:895) irre(cid:448)ersi(cid:271)le (cid:272)essatio(cid:374) of circulation of blood. Iby [2005] nswcca 178: hutty [1953] vlr 338. Factual causation (cid:858)but for(cid:859) test (cid:858)co(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) se(cid:374)se(cid:859) test. Legal causation: different tests have been used by the courts including, reasonable forseeability test, natural consequence test, operating and substantial cause test. Factual causation does not necessarily equate to criminal liability. Causation is a question of fact for the jury. Can be more than one cause, and potentially more than one liable party.