CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 341 Certain common law offences abolished

CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 341

341 Certain common law offences abolished

The following offences at common law are abolished--

• the offence of perverting the course of justice,

• the offence of attempting or conspiring to pervert the course of justice,

• the offence of falsely accusing a person of a crime or of procuring a person to falsely accuse a person of a crime,

• the offence of concealing evidence so that a person is falsely accused of a crime,

• the offence of attempting to pervert the course of justice by assisting a person to avoid arrest,

• the offence of persuading a person to make a false statement to police to mislead them in their investigation,

• the offence of procuring a person to make a false accusation,

• the offence of misprision of felony,

• the offence of compounding a felony,

• the offence of dissuading, intimidating or preventing, or attempting to dissuade, intimidate or prevent, a person who is bound to give evidence in a criminal matter from doing so,

• the offence of using threats or persuasion to witnesses to induce them not to appear or give evidence in courts of justice,

• the offence of perjury,

• the offence of embracery (attempting to corrupt, influence or instruct a jury or to induce a jury to favour one side more than the other),

• personating a juror.