Criminal Liability

Question 1

Result crimes

Answer 1

By committing the AR the D must have caused a particular result. E.g murder

Question 2

Conduct crime

Answer 2

The AR is doing a specified act, it does not matter what the result of doing that act is. E.g speeding

Question 3

Legal causation

Answer 3

there must be a direct link between the D’s actions and the criminal result, creating an unborken chain of causation that is not interrupted by a new, intervening act.

Question 4

Intervening act

Answer 4

new acts will only break the chain if they are unforeseeable and significantly independent of D’s actions. If the chain is broken, legal causation has not been proved and D can not be liable