Session 1 Indictable And Summary Offences

Question 1

What is an offence?

Answer 1

1. An act that is against the law.
2. An act or omission that makes the person doing or making it liable to punishment.

Question 2

How indictable offences are classified?

Answer 2

Three classifications:
1. More serious are crimes.
2. Less serious are misdemeanour.
3. Minor offence are simple offence.

Question 3

Explain why indictable offences may be dealt with summarily.

Answer 3

Those offences that may be dealt summarily are the less serious offences according tothe circumstances of how they were commited and by whom.