Case Law Flashcards
(10 cards)
Saxton v Police
Importing
To import includes “to introduce from abroad or to cause to be brought in from a foreign country”.
R v Hancox
Importing
“… the bringing of goods into the country or causing them to be brought into the country does not cease as the aircraft or vessel enters New Zealand’s territorial limits. Importing into New Zealand for the purposes of s 6(1)(a) is a process. The element of importing exists from the time the goods enter New Zealand until they reach their immediate destination … [ie] when they have ceased to be under the control of the appropriate authorities and have become available to the consignee or addressee”.
R v Strawbridge
Guilty Knowledge
It is not necessary for the Crown to establish knowledge on the part of the accused. In the absence of evidence to the contrary knowledge on her part will be presumed, but if there is some evidence that the accused honestly believed on reasonable grounds that her act was innocent, then she is entitled to be acquitted unless the jury is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that this was not so.
Police v Emerali
Usable quantity (must be usable and measurable quantity)
The serious offence of possessing a narcotic does not extend to some minute and useless residue of the substance.
R v Rua
Produce or manufacture
The words produce or manufacture in section 6(1)(b), broadly cover the creation of controlled drugs by some form of process which changes the original substances into a particular controlled drug
R v Maginnis
Supply (and distribute, give and sell)
Supply involves more than the mere transfer of physical control … [it includes]
enabling the recipient to apply the thing … to purposes for which he desires …”
R v During
Offering to supply or administer
An offer is an intimation by the person charged to another that he is ready on request to supply to that other drugs of a kind prohibited by the statute
R v Brown
Offering to supply or Administer
The defendant is guilty in the following instances:
(1) offers to supply a drug that he has on hand
(2) offers to supply a drug that will be procured at some future date
(3) offers to supply a drug that he mistakenly believes he can supply
(4) offers to supply a drug deceitfully, knowing he will not supply that drug
“… the making of such an intimation, with the intention that it should be understood as a genuine offer, is an offence”.
R v Forrest and Forrest
“The best evidence possible in the circumstances should be adduced by the prosecution in proof of [the victim’s] age”.
R v Cox
Possession involves two elements. The first, the physical element, is actual or potential physical custody or control. The second, the mental element, is a combination of knowledge and intention: knowledge in the sense of an awareness by the accused that the substance is in his possession; and an intention to exercise possession.
