Kevin Borick
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Kevin Borick, QC is a highly regarded criminal-law barrister in South Australia
, and the president of the Australian Criminal Lawyers Association.
His notable cases include:
South Australia
South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...
, and the president of the Australian Criminal Lawyers Association.
His notable cases include:
- Cheatle v The Queen (1993) 177 CLR 541, case which determined that there is an implied right in the Australian Constitution that a jury verdict for Federal crimes must be unanimous.
- Andre Chad ParenzeeAndre Chad ParenzeeAndre Chad Parenzee is an HIV-positive Australian man convicted of three counts of endangering human life by exposing others to the risk of infection through unprotected sex as he claimed to them that he was HIV seronegative...
, convicted of endangering human life by having unprotected sex while falsely denying to his partners that he was HIVHIVHuman immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...
positive, and transmitting the virus. Borick argued against the conviction on the basis that HIV doesn't cause AIDSAIDSAcquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
. The judge found otherwise. - Henry KeoghHenry KeoghHenry Keogh is an Australian convicted of murder. He grew up in Adelaide, South Australia and was educated at Saint Ignatius College and briefly at the School of Dentistry at The University of Adelaide....
, convicted of the 1994 murder of his fiancée, who was found dead in a bathtub. Borick argued that she hadn't drowned, but had died from some other, unknown cause. Keogh had bought insurance policies on his victim, forging her signature. Borick argued that lots of people sign their partner's names on insurance policies. - Raymond Frederick Ayles, an Anglican priest convicted of sexually abusing a 14-year-old altar boy. Borick appealed, saying that the priest was "genuinely in love" with the boy, and that that needed to be taken into account.