Queensland Criminal Code

• Various accounts of the history of the Queensland Criminal Code
• Sources for the Queensland Criminal Code
• Queensland Parliament : Parliamentary debates, second reading speeches etc

Various accounts of the history of the Queensland Criminal Code

• The Queensland Criminal Code : from Italy to Zanzibar : Address by Sir Harry Gibbs 19th July 2002 (This document is supplied courtesy of the Supreme Court of Queensland)
• An enduring influence : Sir Samuel Griffith and his contribution to criminal justice in Queensland : Geraldine MacKenzie (2002) 2 (1) QUT Law & Justice Journal 53-63
• Codifications of English Criminal Law, Imperial Projects and the self-governing codes: the Queensland and Canadian examples : Barry Wright July 2006 (This document is supplied courtesy of Professor Barry Wright, Professor Law, Carleton University, Canada; it has been updated and published in the UQ Law Journal (2007) 26 (1) University of Queensland Law Journal, 39 "Self-Governing Codifications of English Criminal Law and Empire: The Queensland and Canadian Examples")

Sources for the Queensland Criminal Code

Criminal Code (UK)

• Criminal Code (Indictable Offences) Bill 1880 (UK)
• Criminal Code Bill (No 2) 1880 (UK)

Letters from Sir Alexander Cockburn Lord Chief Justice of England regarding the Criminal Code Bills

• Letter from the Lord Chief Justice of England containing comments and suggestions in relation to the Criminal Code (Indictable Offences) Bill 1878-9, LIX Parl. Pap. 232 : letter dated 12th June 1879
• Letter from Chief Justice Cockburn : dated 3rd February 1880
  (This letter is supplied courtesy of the Osgoode Hall Law School Library, York University, Toronto, Canada)
• Lord Chief Justice Cockburn's second letter on the Criminal Code : letter dated 7th February 1880

The Zanardelli Code (Italy)

• Codice Penale Regno d'Italia 1889 (in Italian)
  (This document is supplied courtesy of the Library of the Supreme Court of Switzerland)

Sir Samuel Griffith's 1896 Digest of applicable criminal statutes

• Digest of the Statutory Criminal Law of Queensland
  (This document is supplied courtesy of the Justice Library, Department of Justice and Attorney-General)

1899 Report of the Royal Commission

• Report of the Royal Commission on a Code of Criminal Law together with Proceedings of the Commission and Draft Criminal Code Bill and Criminal Code
  (This document is supplied courtesy of the Justice Library, Department of Justice and Attorney-General, Queensland)

Sir Samuel Griffith's 1897 Draft Criminal Code and related documents

Draft of a Code of Criminal Law prepared for the Government of Queensland by the Honourable Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, G,C,M,G., Chief Justice of that colony, together with an explanatory letter to the Honourable the Attorney-General, a Table of Contents, and a Table of the Statutory Provisions proposed to be superseded by the Code. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command. Brisbane,Government Printer, 1897

• Draft Criminal Code in full
  (This document is supplied courtesy of the Queensland Parliamentary Library)
  
• Letter from Sir Samuel Griffith to the Queensland Attorney-General : 29th October 1897
• Contents pages
• A Table of the Statutory Provisions proposed to be superseded by the Code
• Letter from Sir Samuel Griffith forwarding a draft of a bill to established a Code of Criminal Law : 29th November 1897
• Draft of a Bill to establish a Code of Criminal Law
• Schedules 2-4

Queensland Parliament : Parliamentary debates, second reading speeches etc

(These documents are supplied courtesty of the Justice Library, Department of Justice and Attorney-General)

Legislative Council 1898 Draft Criminal Code Bill

• Second reading speech + Debate 8th November 1898
• Resumption of Debate 15th November 1898
• Resumption of Debate 22nd November 1898

Legislative Assembly 1899 Criminal Code Bill

• Introduction into Assembly 20th September 1899
• Introduction to Committee 20th September 1899
• Minister's second reading speech + Debate 21st September 1899
• Resumption of Debate 27th September 1899
• Committee 28th September 1899
• Resumption of Committee 3rd October 1899
• Resumption of Committee 4th October 1899
• Resumption of Committee 5th October 1899
• Resumption of Committee 10th October 1899
• Resumption of Committee 20th October 1899

Legislative Council

• Change of Order of the Day : Second reading speech 31st October 1899
• Second reading speech 7th November 1899
• Third reading and Committee 8th November 1899

Legislative Assembly

• Receipt of message from Council : agreed to Bill without amendment 21st November 1899

Legislative Council

• Assent 28th November 1899

Criminal Code Act 1899

(This document supplied courtesy of the Justice Library, Department of Justice and Attorney-General)

• Criminal Code Act 1899 63 Vic No 9