Principles of Criminal Liability · CAPE Law Unit 1

13 past-paper questions on Principles of Criminal Liability, part of Criminal Law, from every CAPE Law Unit 1 paper on Quelpr.

1. 1025 marks· CAPE Law Unit 1 · 2005 · Paper 2'Strict liability offences are statutory and it is a question of interpretation whether a particular offence requires mens rea or not.' Discuss this statement with reference to relevant statutory interpretation and case…
2. 1(c)10 marks· CAPE Law Unit 1 · 2006 · Paper 2Advise Anton on his arrest and charge by the police under Section 3 of the Public Utilities Act concerning the alleged unlawful connection to the public electricity supply.
3. 8(a)15 marks· CAPE Law Unit 1 · 2008 · Paper 2With reference to decided cases, distinguish between 'subjective recklessness' and 'objective recklessness'.
4. 8(b)10 marks· CAPE Law Unit 1 · 2008 · Paper 2Assess the extent to which recklessness affects criminal liability.
5. 9(a)13 marks· CAPE Law Unit 1 · 2008 (second paper) · Paper 2With reference to decided cases, explain what is meant by the expression, 'the intention (mens rea) and the act (actus reus) must coincide to constitute a crime'.
6. 525 marks· CAPE Law Unit 1 · 2010 · Paper 2Analyse the statement that the requirement for mens rea has increasingly become a trend in decided cases regarding strict liability offences, referring to decided cases.
7. 6(b)15 marks· CAPE Law Unit 1 · 2010 · Paper 2Explain Rory's criminal liability.
8. 5(a)(i)5 marks· CAPE Law Unit 1 · 2011 · Paper 2Explain transferred malice, referring to at least one decided case.
9. 6(a)10 marks· CAPE Law Unit 1 · 2011 · Paper 2With reference to a decided case, explain the 'thin-skull principle' OR 'egg-shell principle' in criminal liability.
10. 525 marks· CAPE Law Unit 1 · 2012 · Paper 2With reference to decided cases, explain the importance of the principle that intention and act must coincide to constitute a crime in determining the criminal liability of an accused person.
11. 6(b)15 marks· CAPE Law Unit 1 · 2012 · Paper 2Discuss whether Alf's lawyer is likely to succeed with the argument that the long hospital wait and Ben's haemophilia were to blame since the surgery was routine. Refer to decided cases and give reasons.
12. 6(a)12 marks· CAPE Law Unit 1 · 2013 · Paper 2Explain, with reference to decided cases or examples, the circumstances in which an omission may render a person criminally liable at common law.
13. 5(a)6 marks· CAPE Law Unit 1 · 2015 · Paper 2With reference to three decided cases, explain the development of the mens rea requirement for murder.