Intoxication

Question 1

What is Voluntary intoxication?

Answer 1

When the D gets intoxicated within their own will

Question 2

What is Involuntary intoxication?

Answer 2

When the D does not intend to get intoxicated or has no idea they are

Question 3

What is basic intent?

Answer 3

offences where either intention or recklessness will satisfy mens rea

Question 4

What is specific intent?

Answer 4

those where the offence requires proof of purpose or consequence those where the purpose goes beyond the actus reus

Question 5

Case for intoxication

Answer 5

R v Kingston

Question 6

R v Kingston facts

Answer 6

He had paedophilic thoughts when sober and his friend drugged him where he then went on to do the act with a 15 year old

Question 7

R v Kingston point of law

Answer 7

Kingston was convicted of indecent assault. Kingston’s defence was that if he had not been drugged, he would not have acted the way he did. As there was some recklessness