Federal Court of Australia
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JUDGMENT No. wml2Z._ PH
WORKERS' COMPENSATION - Entitlement To And Liability For Compensation - persons entitled to compensation - "worker" - whether contract of employment for a criminal purpose - consideration of possible offences ~ keeping a brothel - aid and abet the offence of management or conduct of a brothel - knowingly concerned in the management of a brothel - knowingly living on the earnings of prostitution - whether contract void ab initio or unenforceable - whether contract contrary to public policy
Workers' Compensation Act 1951 (ACT), s6(1)
Police Offences Act 1930 (ACT), s18, s23
Crimes Act 1900 (ACT), s345, s351, s477
Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution 1957, par.224 (UK)
Disorderly Houses Act 1751 (UK)
Vagrancy Act 1901 (NSW)
Police Offences (Amendment) Act 1908 (NSW)
Police Offences Ordinance 1970 (ACT), para23(1)(j) Self-Government (Consequential Amendments) Act 1989 (ACT) Director of Public Prosecutions (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 Police Offences Ordinance 1930
Prostitution (Consequential Amendments) Act 1992 (ACT), s.3 Interpretation Act 1967 (ACT), s.33F
Local Government Act 1919 (NSW)
Taxation (X-Rated Videos) Act 1990 (ACT)
Statute of Frauds 1677
Banking Act 1959 (Cth)
A v Hayden (1984) 156 CLR 532
Giorgianni v The Queen (1985) 156 CLR 473
Markulin v Drew (1993) DFC 95-140
R_v Rahme (unreported) 15 December 1993, Criminal Court of Appeal
The Workcover Corporation (San Remo Macaroni Co. Pty. Ltd.) v Liang Da
Ping (unreported) 30 March 1994
Pearce v Brooks [1866] LR 1 Exch. 213 Durose v Wilson (1907] 96 LT 645
Kemp v Lewis [1914] 3 KB 543
Abbott v Smith [1965] 2 QB 662; [1964] 3 All ER 762 McFarlane (1994] 2 WLR 494
Blackmore v Linton [1961] VR 354
Barrie [1978] 2 NZLR 78
R_v Peirson (1706) 92 ER 291, 2 Ld Raym 1197 R v Higginson (1762) 97 ER 806, 2 Burr 1232 Rv Tan [1983] 1 QB 1053
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