Other definitions

Question 1

Knowledge

Answer 1

To know/ascertain physical or mental perception. Believes something to be the case.

R v Crooks - Knowledge or belief that person they were assisting was party to offence, mere suspicion is not enough.

Question 2

Wilful blindness

Answer 2

Turning a blind eye or deliberately refraining from something can be inferred as knowledge.

R v Briggs - Knowledge can be inferred from wilful blindness. The accused’s intentional ignorance could be seen as deliberately choosing not to enquire about the truth or knowing the truth but deliberately not asking questions.

Question 3

Negligence

Answer 3

Not taking all reasonable steps

Question 4

Beyond reasonable doubt

Answer 4

Prosecutions must prove that acus rea and mens rea were present and that no other logical explanation can be derived from the facts except that the defendant did it.

Question 5

strict liability

Answer 5

Must prove actus rea however case can be thrown out if the defendant proves no mens rea

Question 6

Absolute liability

Answer 6

only need actus rea regardless of the defendants mens rea

Question 7

Statutory defence

Answer 7

Infancy/Defence of Self or Property/Insanity/Compulsion

Question 8

Common Law defence

Answer 8

Impossibility/Necessity/Consent/Intoxication/Mistake/Sane Automatism