AQA A-Level Law 7162
The Nature of Law
The European Union and English Law
Legal Personnel and the Judiciary
Access to Justice and Funding
Parliamentary Law Making
Delegated Legislation
Statutory Interpretation
Judicial Precedent
Law Reform
The Civil Courts and Dispute Resolution
The Criminal Courts and Sentencing
Lay People: Magistrates and Juries
Criminal Law: Rules and Theory
General Elements of Liability
Fatal Offences Against the Person
Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person
Property Offences
Preliminary Offences
Criminal Defences
Tort: Rules and Theory
Negligence
Occupiers' Liability
Nuisance and Rylands v Fletcher
Vicarious Liability
Tort: Defences and Remedies
Contract: Rules and TheoryContract
Formation of a ContractContract
Contract TermsContract
Vitiating FactorsContract
Discharge of a ContractContract
Contract: RemediesContract
Human Rights: Rules and TheoryHuman rights
Human Rights in International and UK LawHuman rights
The European Convention ArticlesHuman rights
Restrictions and EnforcementHuman rights
Reform of Human Rights LawHuman rights
General Elements of Liability
Mens Rea, Strict Liability and Coincidence
- 3 things to know
- Paper 1
Overview
Recall questions on direct and oblique intention, subjective recklessness and negligence, transferred malice and its limits, strict liability offences and the presumption of mens rea, and the continuing act and single transaction principles.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
What is negligence as a fault element in criminal law?
How are strict liability offences typically created?
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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Define mens rea.
Model answer
The mental or fault element of a crime; the guilty mind required for criminal liability.
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What is intention in criminal law?
Model answer
The highest form of mens rea, requiring that the defendant desired or aimed to bring about the prohibited consequence.
- 3
What is direct intention?
Model answer
Where the defendant's purpose or aim was to bring about the prohibited consequence.
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When may oblique intention be found?
Model answer
Where the consequence was virtually certain to result from the defendant's actions and the defendant appreciated this virtual certainty.
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Define subjective recklessness.
Model answer
Where the defendant was aware of a risk of the prohibited consequence occurring and unreasonably took that risk.
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How does intention differ from subjective recklessness?
Model answer
Intention requires desire or foresight of virtual certainty of the consequence, while recklessness requires only awareness of a risk.
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