WDW101Y1 Final: WDW225 Exam Booklet - Law Principles
12 May 2011
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may involve a specific circumstances (lack of consent) must be voluntary (physical element) + (mental element) criminal act + criminal intent. Actus reus: defined in the criminal code. Read the provision of the code: involves an act or omission. Omission requires a legal duty to act: may involve a specified consequence. Factual causation = contributory cause that is beyond de minimis. Legal cause = no break in the chain of causation by an intervening act or remoteness: may involve a specified circumstance. Example: absence of consent consent can be vitiated (deemed invalid) by fraud or other social policy (ex. Involuntary of acting in a state of automatism non-insane automatism vs. insane automatism. Could be more than one element to the actus reus. Might specify a particular consequence (might specify causation) Might specify a particular circumstances (absence of consent: criminal law: act + fault, act, of commission, or, 4) in certain cases only, of omission, that is voluntary, and,
