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ACTUS REUS
WHAT IS IT ?
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It can be an act, a failure to act (omission) or a 'state of affairs'
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Where a consequence is required for the offence to be completed, the prohibited conduct must cause the consequences
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CONSEQUENCES CRIME
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This means that the acts reps are only committed where, as well as the defendant doing ( or failing to do) something there is a particular prohibited consequence caused by the defendant's conduct,
This can be seen in the offence of assault occasioning actual bodily harm ( Section 49 of the Offence Against the Person Act 1861)
CONDUCT CRIME
For many crimes, it isn't necessary for my consequence to be proved. these are known as 'conduct crime'.
e.g theft, where the prohibited conduct to be proved is that the defendant appropriated property belonging to another,
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INVOLUNTARINESS
There are some rare instances in which the defendant has been convicted even though he did not act voluntarily
These situations involves 'state of affairs' but not one that the defendant entered into voluntarily
R V LARSONNEUR (1933)
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The defendant, a French woman, was deported against her will from Ireland to England.
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