Chapter 3 Multiple choice questions

Mens rea

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. What is 'mens rea'?

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. In many offences the mens rea required is that of ______, to cause the prohibited result.

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. What is direct intention?

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. What is oblique intention?

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. Which of the following implies 'fault'?

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. Which of the following cases defined intention as 'a decision to bring about, in so far as it lies within the accused's power, [the prohibited consequence], no matter whether the accused desired that consequence of his act or not'?

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. What word or phrase was used by the Court of Appeal in Nedrick (1986) as the appropriate term to be used to explain the meaning of intention?

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. Which of the following cases involved the issue of whether the defendant foresaw a substantial risk of serious harm to the victim, his 3 month-old son, whom he threw four or five feet across the room causing him a fractured skull from which he died.

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. Which of the following adjectives have the courts not used in relation to 'intention'?

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. The notion that _____ conveys is that of taking an unjustifiable risk.

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