Mistake of Fact in UK Law
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Mistaking theft: Dishonesty ‘turns over a new leaf’
The common law doctrine of mistake of fact or civil law works as denial of offending, but dishonesty works as one of the definitional elements of crimes such as theft and fraud. It is argued in thi...... ... mistake of fact or civil law works as denial of offending, butdishonesty works as ... ...
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Book Review: Criminal Defences
... ... infancy or insanity, necessity, duress, compulsion, coercion, mistake of fact or law and, in some cases, consent. Particular defences ... ...
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Excessive Self-Defence: Third-Party Problems
... ... -defence; Involvement in attack by victim; Putative self-defence; Mistake of fact The defendant stood trial for intentionally causing bodily harm ( ... ...
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Anglo-African Perspectives on Self-Defence
... ... , being former British colonies, their penal laws have in common the fact that they have been largely influenced by English jurisprudence concerning ... in the light of Article 32 of the ICC Statute which deals with mistake of fact. That Article states that ‘[a] mistake of fact shall be a ground ... ...
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Book Review: Young Offenders and the State: A Canadian Perspective on Delinquency
... ... infancy or insanity, necessity, duress, compulsion, coercion, mistake of fact or law and, in some cases, consent. Particular defences ... ...
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The Australian Criminal Code: Time for Some Changes
... ... My particular concern, in this essay, is the effect of mistake or ignorance on criminal responsibility. I have two objectives in th e ... criminal responsibility are relatively well settled when errors of fact are in issue and Chapter 2 faithfully reproduced the received common law ... ...
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Mistake of Law—A Mistake?
... ... The main shortcoming of the traditional approach has been an attempt to distinguish between a “mistake of fact” and a so-called “mistake of law”. This distinction is an illusory one as, it is hoped, will be shown. Worse, the term ... ...
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THE PROTECTION OF PRINCIPLE UNDER A CRIMINAL CODE
... ... provision relating to negligence, for an unreasonable mistake is a negligent mistake, a mistake which would not have ... intended to seem to be of the correct weight when the fact of the deficiency is not known. It is submitted that Hussie ... ...
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