Abstract
R v Strawbridge saw the Court of Appeal in 1970 adopt a “half-way house” between an absolute offence and requiring the Court to prove knowledge. The case of Cameron v R was perhaps an incident in which the court appeared to be resurrecting the ‘Strawbridge’ category of offence in 2017. The article concludes, however, that Strawbridge will continue to apply to a limited band of cases that involve the specific misidentification of prohibited drugs only, and thus has not been resurrected at all.