Palmer v Ostrowski

• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Defences
  3. › Mistake of fact
  4. › Distinction between mistake of fact and mistake of law
  5. › Incomplete regulatory documentation provided by government agency
  6. › Whether mistaken belief induced by factual misrepresentation as to completeness of regulations was mistake of fact
  7. › Criminal Code 1913 (WA), ss 22, 24
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Defences
  3. › Mistake of fact
  4. › Compound event of law and fact
  5. › Whether mistake as to existence of regulation was mistake of fact or law
  6. › Criminal Code 1913 (WA), s 24
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Defences
  3. › Officially induced error of law
  4. › Whether doctrine recognised in Western Australia
  5. › Whether leave to amend grounds of appeal should be granted to raise new point not argued at trial
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Criminal appeal
  3. › Leave to amend grounds of appeal
  4. › New point not raised at trial
  5. › Whether prosecution prejudiced
  6. › Whether appropriate to raise on appeal

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