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There are generally two elements to a crime; the physical element and the mental element. Crimes will usually have different factors that classify as the physical element and the mental element.Let us say...

In both cases a death has occurred. We all know that for someone to be guilty of murder they must have satisfied the actus reus and the mens rea, they must have unlawfully caused the death and they must h...

Oblique Intention= In Woollin (1999) the court of appeal stated that oblique intention can exist where (a) the consequence of an action was virtually certain and (b) the defendant recognised that it was v...

Pursuant to the common law’s economic view of contracts, the English conception of contracts requires the exchange of reciprocal obligations. It is frequently said that, historically, the fundamental purp...

Parliamentary sovereignty is the sum of legal sovereignty and political sovereignty. Legal sovereignty means that the body is the highest body for making law. For instance, in the UK, Parliament can pass ...