The New Zealand Law Journal: NZLJ.Butterworths, 1992 - Law |
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... defence of necessity in criminal law is well known and in Kapi was accepted as applicable in New Zealand . However the Judge held that necessity was analogous to mistake rather than self - defence . Consequently the defence had to be ...
... defence of necessity in criminal law is well known and in Kapi was accepted as applicable in New Zealand . However the Judge held that necessity was analogous to mistake rather than self - defence . Consequently the defence had to be ...
Page 9
... defence On the issue of necessity as a defence the Court notes that while s 20 does not explicitly preserve a defence of necessity , observations made by the Court of Appeal in R v Woolnough [ 1977 ] 2 NZLR 508 at 516 , clearly suggest ...
... defence On the issue of necessity as a defence the Court notes that while s 20 does not explicitly preserve a defence of necessity , observations made by the Court of Appeal in R v Woolnough [ 1977 ] 2 NZLR 508 at 516 , clearly suggest ...
Page 386
... defence of compulsion so enacted in the 1893 Act has remained substantially the same ever since and the original reason for leaving necessity as a common law defence has never been questioned . So it is clear that the defence of ...
... defence of compulsion so enacted in the 1893 Act has remained substantially the same ever since and the original reason for leaving necessity as a common law defence has never been questioned . So it is clear that the defence of ...
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