Liabilities - Parties to Offences Flashcards
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Outline the ingredients of section 66(2) as the relate to criminal responsibility of parties to an offence.
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- This section relates to when to or more people form a common intention to commit an offence.
- This section makes each participant criminally liable for any offence committed by any participant, where the offence was a probable consequence of the agreed plan.
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Define the four elements contained in section 66(1) that make a person party to an offence.
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- Actually commits the offence or
- Does or omit an act to aid any person to commit the offence or
- Abets any person in the commission of the offence or
- Incites, counsels or procures a person to commit the offence