Sociology 2266A/B Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Criminal Appeal Reports, All England Law Reports, Human Rights Act 1998
21 Jul 2020
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1. 2 justification and excuse: justified conduct is correct behavior which is encouraged or at least tolerated. In determining whether conduct is justified, the focus is on the act, not the actor (defendant, something about them that imposing a criminal liability would be wrong). An excuse represents a legal conclusion that the conduct is wrong, undesirable, but that criminal liability is inappropriate because some characteristic of the actor vitiates society"s desire to punish him the focus in excuses is on the actor. Acts are justified; actors are excused. - (paul robinson criminal law defences: a systematic. Defence of oneself, or defence of another, or defence of one"s property, known as private defence , is still governed by the common law. The applicable principles, however, are much the same. Criminal law lecture outline: defences (5) but subsection (4)(b) does not enable d to rely on any mistaken belief attributable to intoxication that was voluntarily induced. (5a)
