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2 unusual facts about Crimes Act 1900


Catholic sexual abuse cases in Australia

On 31 July 2012, NSW Police in Strike Force Lantle announced they would be providing prosecutors with evidence that Father Brian Lucas, general secretary of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Archbishop Philip Wilson of Adelaide and Michael Malone, retired Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, had committed the offence of concealing a serious crime under s316 of the Crimes Act 1900 NSW in concealing child sexual abuse by the priest Denis McAlinden (now deceased) in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese.

Criminal law of Australia

Criminal offences under New South Wales law are based on the common law and the statutory provisions in the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW).



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