LS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Intentionality, Mens Rea

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Legal Studies
• Course: LS202
• Professor: Susan Brophy

Document Summary

Everyone commits an offence who operates: a motor vehicle in a manner that is dangerous to the public, having regard to all the circumstances, including the nature, condition and use of the place at which the motor vehicle is being operated and the amount of traffic that at the time is or might reasonably be expected to be at that place. Everyone is a party to an offence who: does or omits to do anything for the purpose of aiding any person to commit it, where two or more persons form an intention in common to carry out an unlawful purpose and to assist each other therein and any one of them, in carrying out the common purpose, commits an offence, each of them who knew or ought to have known that the commission of the offence would be a probable consequence of carrying out the common purpose is a party to that offence.