levo

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.

Your recallNot started
Key term

Define mens rea.

Key term

What is negligence as a fault element in criminal law?

Key term

How are strict liability offences typically created?

Questions from this subtopic

Each one with the model answer underneath.

  1. 1

    Define mens rea.

    Model answer

    The mental or fault element of a crime; the guilty mind required for criminal liability.

  2. 2

    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. 3

    What is direct intention?

    Model answer

    Where the defendant's purpose or aim was to bring about the prohibited consequence.

  4. 4

    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.

  5. 5

    Define subjective recklessness.

    Model answer

    Where the defendant was aware of a risk of the prohibited consequence occurring and unreasonably took that risk.

  6. 6

    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.

Other ways to work this

The same content, four other ways.

What is inside Levo

Six ways to work the same material.

1Closed book
2Open book
3Closed book

The 3-step method, run for you

Answer cold, learn it, then prove it stuck. Levo tracks the jump between your first attempt and your last.

The Nature of Law
The European Union and English Law
Legal Personnel and the Judiciary
Access to Justice and Funding

Cram a whole paper in one sitting

Sort every topic into what you know and what you do not, then drill only the weak ones.

Assault and .
batterywoundingtheft

Blank Blitz makes facts automatic

Rapid timed gap-fills on the terms and numbers you need to recall without thinking.

AThe defendant must have brought something onto their land.
BThe thing must be likely to do mischief if it escapes.
CThere must be a non-natural use of land.

Build It gets the exam shape right

Assemble a full-mark answer from its marking points, in the order an examiner wants them.

Wound means a break in both layers of the skin.
TrueFalse

Test It catches misconceptions

Spot the fault in a statement. The traps are the mistakes students actually make.

721941163128510

Brain Breaks between sessions

Short focus games to reset attention, so the next set lands better than the last.

Every question in General Elements of Liability, on a schedule.

Attempt a question from memory, write the correct version, then attempt it again. Levo records the jump between your first attempt and your last, and brings each question back on the day you are due to forget it.

Or £46 a year, about £3.83 a month. Cancel anytime.