Criminal Offences Overview: Terrorism, Treason, and More

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Terrorism - The use or threat of action where the use or threat is designed to influence the government or an international governmental organisation or to intimidate the public or a section of the public, and the use or threat is made for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause.Treason - "When a man doth compass or imagine the death of our Lord the King, or of our Lady his [X2Queen] or of their eldest son and heir;Inchoate-Intentionally encouraging or assisting an offence (before: Incitement) - A person commits an offence if he/she does an act capable of encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence;

Conspiracy (statutory) - If a person agrees with any other person or persons that a course of conduct shall be pursued which will necessarily amount to or involve the commission of any offence or offences by one or more of the parties to the agreement if the agreement is carried out in accordance with their intentions, the person is guilty of conspiracy to commit the offence or offences in question.

Attempt - If, with intent to commit an offence, a person does an act which is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the offence, he is guilty of attempting to commit the.Assault - A person is guilty of an assault if he/she intentionally or recklessly causes another person to apprehend immediate and unlawful force by action or by word.

(Source: R. Card, Introduction to Criminal Law, Butterworths, 1980.)

Aggravated assaults: a) assault with intent to rob; b) assault with intent to resist arrest; c) assault occasioning actual bodily harm; d) assault on a police officer acting in the execution of his duty. (Source: R. Card, Introduction to Criminal Law, Butterworths, 1980.)

Battery - A person is guilty of battery if he/she intentionally or recklessly uses unlawful force to another person. The force may be applied directly or indirectly. The act may be momentary or continuing.

Wounding and grievous bodily harm - The accused must be proved to have acted unlawfully and maliciously. Maliciously means that the accused must have been aware that his act might.Harassment - A person whose course of conduct causes another, on at least two occasions, alarm or distress and the person knows or ought to know that this course of conduct will cause the other alarm or distress on each of those occasions is guilty of harassment.

Kidnapping - The nature of the offence is an attack on, and infringement of, the personal liberty of an individual. It contains four ingredients as follows: 1) the taking or carrying away of one person by another; 2) by force or fraud; 3) without the consent of the person so taken or carried away; and 4) without lawful excuse.(Source: R v D [1984] AC 778 at 800, HL)

Other non-fatal offences e.g.: drugging, poisoning, causing injury by explosion, endangering life.)Murder is unlawful homicide with malice aforethought. Malice aforethought consists of the intention on the part of the accused: a) to kill another human being (express); or b) to do grievous bodily harm to another human being.Sexual assault - When a person intentionally touches another person.Theft - A person is guilty of theft if he/she dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it. Any assumption by a person of the rights of an owner amounts to an appropriation. Possession is essentially control, and ownership the right to possession.Robbery - A person is guilty of robbery if he/she steals and, immediately before or at the time of doing so, and in order to do so, uses force on any person or puts or seeks.Criminal damage - A person who without lawful excuse destroys or damages any property belonging to another.Forgery - A person is guilty of forgery if he/she makes a false instrument, with the intention that he/she or another shall use it to induce somebody to accept it as genuine, and by reason of so accepting it to do or no. CONTRA EL ORDEN publico=Violent disorder - Where 3 or more people who are present together use or threaten unlawful violenc(RIOt) es lo mismo pero 12 pers.Affray - A person is guilty of affray if he/she uses or threatens unlawful violence towards another and his conduct is such..Public nuisance - A common law offence in which the injury, loss or damage is suffered by the local community

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