Where the Crown particularises murder on alternative bases of liability under ss 7(1)(a), 7(1)(b)/(c) and 8 of the Criminal Code (Qld), and those bases depend substantially on the same facts and course of conduct, no extended unanimity direction is required — the jury need only be unanimous as to the verdict of guilt, not the pathway by which they reach it. An admission made under s 644(1) of the Criminal Code on behalf of the accused of facts underlying a co-offender's conviction is evidence against the accused and no direction to the contrary is required.
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