O'Leary v WA

• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Parties to offences
  3. › Joint principals
  4. › Acting in concert under s 7(a) Criminal Code (WA)
  5. › Series of acts constituting offence
  6. › Whether persons acting in concert where each does one or more acts
  7. › What it means to 'act in concert'
  8. › Whether mutuality required
  9. › Whether pre-existing plan or understanding necessary where not all accused present from commencement of act
  10. › Criminal Code (WA), s 7(a)
  11. › Interpretation Act 1984 (WA), s 10(c)
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Offences
  3. › Acts intended to cause bodily harm or endanger life
  4. › Section 304(2) Criminal Code (WA)
  5. › Identification of the 'act'
  6. › Whether intent to harm must accompany entirety of charged act
  7. › Where act constituted by series of acts by multiple persons
  8. › Whether sufficient that accused had intent only during own physical participation
• 1. Evidence
  2. › Hearsay rule
  3. › Statement led to prove fact of statement not truth of contents
  4. › Whether statement made by one person to another admissible in trial of third person not present
  5. › Relevance of statement to issue of pre-existing plan
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal
  3. › Unreasonable verdict
  4. › Circumstantial evidence
  5. › Whether alternative inference consistent with innocence reasonably open
  6. › Whether evidence capable of excluding alternative hypothesis of no pre-existing plan

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