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The article offers information on the High Court of Australia case Munda v Western Australia in which the High Court dismissed an appeal from a decision of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which had allowed an appeal against the original sentence imposed on Ernest Munda for manslaughter. Topics discussed include crimes by Aboriginal Australians, criminal law of Australia regarding crimes committed by Aboriginal Australians and criminal law regarding manslaughter.

The article offers information on the judgment of High Court of Australia SZOQQ v. Minister for Immigration and Citizenship regarding status of protection obligations owed to appellant by the Australian government under the Migration Act of 1958. It analyzes that appellant was an Indonesian national, who was granted protection visa in Australia but later in 2001, he was charged of manslaughter and sentenced imprisonment. The court held that no protection obligation was owed to the appellant.

The article discusses the High Court of Australia's case Patel v. The Queen, wherein the appellant, a surgeon at a regional hospital in Queensland, was tried before a jury on charges of manslaughter. The appellant's motion to quash the convictions and ordering a new trial was allowed, and the decision of the Queensland's Supreme Court was reversed. It offers information on several court cases which were referred in this case including Callaghan v. The Queen, R v. Lavender, and R v. G.

The article focuses on the Commonwealth Law Reports (CLR) in cases including R v. Nguyen and Gilbert v. The Queen to evaluate whether a viable case of manslaughter should be left on to jury in context to miscarriage of law. In Gilbert, it manifests that directions given by a trial judge was about complicity, however she made a wrong decision on a law.