Attempts, Conspiracy, and Encouraging or Assisting Crime

Question 1

What can arresting someone for a criminal attempt be used for?

Answer 1

Penalise someone for carrying out an act just short of committing the full offence

Question 2

What offences are excluded from the criminal attempts act?

Answer 2

Summary only offences, conspiracy to commit an indictable offence, aiding the commission of an offence, an offence under the suicide act, assisting an offender

Question 3

What is conspiracy, and what section and act does it come under?

Answer 3

A plan made in secret by a group of people to do something unlawful. s1 Criminal law Act 1977

Question 4

What are the points to prove for the offence conspiracy?

Answer 4

Two or more people

Husband and wife cannot be guilty if they are the only parties involved

Question 5

What are the possible defences for the crime assisting offences?

Answer 5

Prevention and detection of crime
Assist in a minor offence to prevent a more serious one being committed
impossible for the main crime to be committed