AS LAW UNIT 2 ACTUS REUS ESSAY
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- Created on: 12-09-14 23:44
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Actus Reus is the latin term meaning 'guilty action' in Hill v Baxter, Lord Goddard argued that an act must be voluntary, involuntary actions cannt satisfy the actus reus as seen in Wholley. The court accepted that his sneezing fit rendered his actions involuntary. However, sometimes people can be found guilty of a criminal offence for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, even if they had no control over their actions. in R v Larsonneur, the CA decided that she had not been rightly…
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