State
law references on this site are mainly to Victoria
index
to on-site criminal law notes
Notes 1
Defining a crime: general
principles - Proving a crime: general principles -
Conspiracy - Drugs - Fraud, theft, handling, unlawful
possession, burglary
Notes 2
Homicide - Other non-sexual
offences against the person - Sexual offences
Notes 3
Confessions - Propensity evidence -
Identification - False denials, lies, post offence
conduct, demeanour of accused, betterment - Silence of
accused or selective response - Expert opinion -
Unreliable witness warnings - The prejudice discretion -
The discretion to exclude evidence illegally or unfairly
obtained
Notes 4
Abuse of process - Double jeopardy
and other bars to re-litigation of issues - Duplicity -
Judicially directed acquittal at trial - Mental
impairment and unfitness to be tried - Separate trials of
counts against one accused - Separate trials of one
accused from another
Notes 5 Abortion - Alibi defence -
Alternative verdicts - Amendment - Attempt - Bail -
Calling of prosecution witnesses - Causation - Change of
plea - Change of venue - Comment prohibited on standing
mute - Committals, presentment for trial - Complicity -
Criminal liability of children - Cross-examination -
Diplomatic immunity - Drink driving - Duress and
necessity defences - Extradition - Good character of
accused on issue of guilt - Hearsay - Handwriting -
Immunity of advocate in criminal cases from civil suit -
Innocent agency - Intoxication - Motive to lie -
Particulars - Perjury - Pervert course of justice -
Presumption of regularity - Prior statements of witness -
Privilege - Prosecution disclosure - Relevance - Res
Gestae - Territorial and extra-territorial jurisdiction -
Time limitations - Unrepresented accused - Voir dire -
Warrants, surveillance devices and telephone intercepts -
Witnesses
Occupational health & safety law
Victoria
Occ. Health and Safety Act duties -
Principal Victoria ohs regulations - Improvement and
prohibition notices - Compliance Codes and Codes of
Practice - Corporations etc and their officers -
Sentencing for breach of duty offences
Criminal juries Victoria
Source of jury panel - Empanelment
- Empanelment to retirement - Discharge without verdict -
During retirement - Verdict or disagreement - After
verdict or disagreement
Sentencing law Victoria
Main sentencing options -
Sentencing facts and matters - Submissions as to
appropriate sentence - Sentencing purposes - Sentencing
factors which a court must regard - Principles of
proportionality, totality and parity - Instinctive
synthesis - Further Notes
Criminal
appeals Victoria
Appeal to County Court or Supreme
Court against finding of guilt or sentence by
Magistrates' Court or Children's Court - Appeal to Court
of Appeal against jury verdict of guilty - Appeal to
Court of Appeal against conviction by County Court or
Supreme Court after plea of guilty -
Appeal to Court of Appeal against
sentence by County Court or Supreme Court - Order 56
Judicial Review - Appeal to High Court