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In common law jurisdictions, legislation does not always exhaustively define the elements of an offence. For example, section 117 of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) states that larceny is an indictable offence punishable for five years, but it does not define the meaning of larceny. [1] [Note 2] The offence of larceny remains defined in NSW by the ...
There were 1,638 homicide incidents in Australia in 2013 compared with 1,624 in 2014. [17] From the National Australian Homicide Monitoring program report 2012: "The homicide rate has continued to decrease each year, since 1989-90. The periods 2010–2011 and 2011–2012 are the lowest homicide rate since data collection began in 1989”. [18]
On 13 April 2024, 40-year-old Joel Cauchi stabbed and killed six people and injured a further twelve in the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Five women and one man died, while the injured included a nine-month-old girl.
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The Wieambilla shootings was a religiously motivated terrorist attack in Australia on 12 December 2022. It involved the killing of police constables Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow, and neighbour Alan Dare, at a rural property in Wieambilla, a locality in Queensland.
Larceny is a crime involving the unlawful taking or theft of the personal property of another person or business. It was an offence under the common law of England and became an offence in jurisdictions which incorporated the common law of England into their own law (also statutory law), where in many cases it remains in force.
The 2023 Leongatha mushroom poisoning is an ongoing legal case involving three deaths from suspected mushroom poisoning in Leongatha, Victoria, Australia. One woman has been charged with three counts of murder and five counts of attempted murder. The case will return to court in April 2025. [1] [2] [3]