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Accessories; Affray; Intention; Joint enterprise; Murder; Transferred malice; Victims Regina v Armel Gnango [2011] UKSC 59 is the leading English criminal law case on the interaction of joint enterprise , transferred malice , and exemption from criminal liability where a party to what would normally be a crime is the victim of it.
Transferred intent (or transferred mens rea, or transferred malice, in English law) is a legal doctrine that holds that, when the intention to harm one individual inadvertently causes a second person to be hurt instead, the perpetrator is still held responsible.
The doctrine of transferred malice means, for instance, that if a man intends to strike a person with his belt, but the belt bounces off and hits another, mens rea is transferred from the intended target to the person who actually was struck.[Note: The notion of transferred intent does not exist within Scots' Law. In Scotland, one would not be ...
The doctrine of transferred malice means, for instance, that if a man strikes another with his belt, but the belt bounces off and hits a nearby woman, the man is guilty of battery toward her. [27] Malice can also be general, so that terrorists who plant bombs to kill random people are certainly guilty.
R v Latimer, [2001] 1 SCR 3 was a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada in the controversial case of Robert Latimer, a Saskatchewan farmer convicted of murdering ...
Latimer, who has staunchly supported Israel in its response to the brutal attack by Hamas on Oct. 7, joined a growing list of pro-Israel Democrats to call for a halt in the military action as the ...
R v Latimer, [1997] 1 SCR 217, was a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada in the controversial case of Robert Latimer, a Saskatchewan farmer convicted of murdering his disabled daughter Tracy. The case involved consideration of arbitrary detention under section 9 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and rights to an explanation for ...
Robert William Latimer (born March 13, 1953) is a Canadian canola and wheat farmer who was convicted of second degree murder in the death of his daughter Tracy Lynn Latimer (born November 23, 1980 – October 24, 1993).