Principles of Criminal Liability - BIL0005

Assessment 1: Other

Activities providing opportunities for formative assessment will generally be integrated into the teaching and learning process and apply to all components of summative assessment.  The nature of the formative assessment tasks used will be at the discretion of the tutor, to include for example, workshop exercises, quizzes, group discussions.  

Other

Assessment 2: Exam

Exam

Assessment 1: Written Assignment

Written Assignment

<p>This module will enable students to acquire a thorough understanding of the principles of criminal liability, and how these principles are applied to specific offences.  Students will also acquire knowledge of the basis of a defendant’s liability and the skills to apply their knowledge in problem situations.</p>

Huddersfield Business School

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BIL0005 - Principles of Criminal Liability

Principles of Criminal Liability

analyse problems, identify the appropriate principles of criminal law that arise, and to propose solutions to those problems.

research and apply information from secondary and occasionally primary sources.

use established techniques to critically analyse specific offences into their component elements (the actus reus and mens rea).

have an understanding of how criminal offences are classified.

know the elements of the defences which may apply to offences in a given situation.

analyse and classify the various types of criminal offences.

effectively communicate solutions to problems, arguments and analysis, in a variety of forms.

effectively deploy key techniques, concepts and principles of criminal law outside the context in which they were first studied.

have acquired knowledge of the main methods of analysis of specific offences into their component elements (the actus reus and mens rea – as studied previously) to establish criminal liability.

analyse the facts of a problem, identify which offences are relevant and state and apply the elements (actus reus and mens rea) of the offences to the facts of the problem in order to come to conclusions as to liability.

know the elements (actus reus and mens rea) of a criminal offence which have to be proved in order to establish criminal liability.