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The High Court of Australia dismissed an appeal concerning the interpretation of section 11.5(1) of the Criminal Code (Cth), which creates the statutory offence of conspiracy. The appellant argued that under common law, spouses alone cannot conspire, and this rule affects the meaning of conspiracy in section 11.5. However, the Court found that on the clear language of the Code, a husband and wife are each a "person" capable of conspiring with each other under section 11.5. As such, section 11.5 applied to t

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Jerome
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