R v Garcia

• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal and new trial
  3. › Miscarriage of justice
  4. › Misdirection or non-direction
  5. › Redirection to jury on meaning of 'substance'
  6. › Whether statement that 'money is a substance' occasioned miscarriage of justice
  7. › Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth), s 307.2(1)
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal and new trial
  3. › Miscarriage of justice
  4. › Misdirection or non-direction
  5. › Failure to direct on mistake or ignorance of fact
  6. › Whether proof of recklessness beyond reasonable doubt negates need for direction under s 9.1
  7. › Whether s 9.1 rendered superfluous by such interpretation
  8. › Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth), ss 5.4, 9.1, 307.2
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Commonwealth offences
  3. › Importation of border controlled drugs
  4. › Fault element of recklessness
  5. › Relationship between recklessness under s 5.4 and mistake of fact under s 9.1
  6. › Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth), ss 5.4, 9.1, 307.2
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Intermediate appellate courts
  3. › National legislation
  4. › Obligation to follow decisions of other intermediate appellate courts unless plainly wrong

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