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The criminal offences are provided for in Schedule of the Act, and citing criminal offences in the Schedule is simply to the Criminal Code (WA). [27] There are many other Acts in WA which have contain criminal offences, including (but not limited to) the Misuse of Drugs Act 1981 (WA), the Firearms Act 1973 (WA), the Road Traffic Act 1974 (WA ...
Also, in December 2008, a New South Wales Supreme Court judge, Justice Michael Adams, ruled to uphold a magistrate's decision that a pornographic cartoon parodying characters on The Simpsons (Bart and Lisa) was child pornography, because "[i]t follows that a fictional cartoon character, even one which departs from recognisable human forms in some significant respects, may nevertheless be the ...
Life imprisonment is the most severe criminal sentence available to the courts in Australia.Most cases attracting the sentence are murder.It is also imposed, albeit rarely, for sexual assault, manufacturing and trafficking commercial quantities of illicit drugs, and offences against the justice system and government security.
The Act, alongside the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) and the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth), [2] [3] form the almost complete basis of criminal law for the State. It is the primary criminal law statute of NSW, and which formed the basis for the Australian Capital Territory 's Crimes Act 1900 (ACT).
The court consists of a Chief Justice, six resident judges, and a number of acting and additional judges. The Supreme Court Act also provides for the appointment of an Associate Judge (previously called the Master), though this position has been vacant since its most recent holder, Verity McWilliam, was elevated to the bench in 2023.
The Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia which addresses the most serious federal offences — that is, crimes against the Commonwealth.It was the first major federal criminal law since the Federation of Australia in 1901, [1] since most criminal law of Australia was, and still is, handled by the states and territories rather than at the federal level.
Dante Arthurs (born 1987) – raped and murdered a child in a shopping centre in 2007. [10] Sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 13 years. [11]Robert Bropho (1930–2011) – an Australian Aboriginal rights activist and convicted serial child sex offender from Perth, Western Australia.
The law, part of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, applies to pornography (defined as an image "of such a nature that it must reasonably be assumed to have been produced solely or principally for the purpose of sexual arousal") which is "grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character" and portrays "in an explicit and realistic way" any of the following: