Liabilities Robbery

Question 1

Liability CA61 s234(1)

Answer 1

Robbery: 10years

Robbery is theft accompanied by violence or threats of violence,
to any person or property,
used to extort the property stolen or to prevent or overcome resistance to its being stolen.

Question 2

Liability CA61 s219(1)(a)

Answer 2

Theft

dishonestly and without claim of right,
taking any property
with intent to deprive any owner permanently of that property
or of any interest in that property

Question 3

Liability CA61 s235 (a)

Answer 3

235 Aggravated robbery
14 years

(a)
robs any person and,
at the time of, or immediately before or immediately after, the robbery, causes grievous bodily harm
to any person; or

Question 4

Liability CA61 s235 (b)

Answer 4

235 Aggravated robbery
14 years

(b)
being together with
any other person or persons,
robs any person; or

Question 5

Liability CA61 s235 (c)

Answer 5

235 Aggravated robbery
14 years

(c)
being armed with any offensive weapon or instrument,
or any thing appearing to be such a weapon or instrument,

robs any other person.

Question 6

Liability CA61 s236(1)(a)

Answer 6

236(1)(a) Assault with intent to rob
14 years

With intent to rob any person

causes grievous bodily harm

to that person or any other person;

Question 7

Liability CA61 s236(1)(b)

Answer 7

236(1)(b) Assault with intent to rob
14 years

With intent to rob any person

being armed with any offensive weapon or instrument,
or any thing appearing to be such a weapon or instrument,

assaults that person or any other person;

Question 8

Liability CA61 s236(1)(c)

Answer 8

236(1)(c) Assault with intent to rob
14 years

With intent to rob any person
being together with any other person or persons,
assaults that person or any other person.

Question 9

Liability CA61 s236(2)

Answer 9

236(2) Assault with intent to rob
7 years

assaults any person with intent to rob that person or any other person

Question 10

Liability CA61 s237(1)(a)(b)

Answer 10

237(1)(a)(b) Blackmail 14 years

(1) Every one commits blackmail who

threatens,

expressly or by implication,

to make any accusation against any person (whether living or dead),

to disclose something about any person (whether living or dead), or

to cause serious damage to property or endanger the safety of any person with intent—

(a)
to cause the person to whom the threat is made to act in accordance with the will of the person making the threat; and

(b)
to obtain any benefit or to cause loss to any other person.

Question 11

Liability CA61 s237(2)

Answer 11

237(2) Blackmail 14 years

(2)
Every one who acts in the manner described in subsection (1) is guilty of blackmail, even though that person believes that he or she is entitled to the benefit or to cause the loss,

unless the making of the threat is, in the circumstances, a reasonable and proper means for effecting his or her purpose.

Question 12

Liability CA61 s239(1)

Answer 12

239(1) Demanding with intent to steal, etc 14 years

(1)
without claim of right,
by force or with any threat,

compels any person

to execute, make, accept, endorse, alter, or destroy

any document capable of conferring a pecuniary advantage

with intent to obtain any benefit.

Question 13

Liability CA61 s239(2)

Answer 13

239(2) Demanding with intent to steal, etc 7 years

(2)
with menaces or by any threat, demands any property
from any persons
with intent to steal it.

Question 14

Robbery:
What case law applies to “violence”?

Answer 14

Peneha
It is sufficient that “the actions of the defendant forcibly interfere with the personal freedom of the victim

Question 15

Robbery:
What case law applies to “Threats of violence”?

Answer 15

Broughton

Question 16

Does a conditional assault constitute an assault?

Answer 16

Yes.