Course curriculum

    1. Assessment objectives

    2. What is criminal liability about?

    3. → What is criminal law about? MIND MAP

    4. Key definitions

    5. Key legislation

    1. Overview of actus reus

    2. The guilty act

    3. Omissions

    4. → Omissions MIND MAP

    5. Causation

    6. → Overview of actus reus MIND MAP

    7. PRACTICE MCQs: Actus reus

    1. Overview of mens rea

    2. Intention

    3. Recklessness

    4. → Recklessness MIND MAP

    5. Negligence

    6. → Negligence MIND MAP

    7. Strict liability offences

    8. Transferred malice

    9. → Transferred malice MIND MAP

    10. Coincidence of actus reus and mens rea

    11. Classification of offences

    12. PRACTICE MCQs: Mens rea

    1. Overview of assaults

    2. Hierarchy of assaults

    3. → Hierarchy of assaults MIND MAP

    4. Simple assault and battery

    5. Assault occasioning actual bodily harm

    6. → Assault occasioning actual bodily harm MIND MAP

    7. Wounding or causing grievous bodily harm

    8. Consent as a defence

    9. PRACTICE MCQs: Assaults

    1. Overview of murder and partial defences

    2. Homicide

    3. Murder

    4. Voluntary manslaughter

    5. Diminished responsibility

    6. → Diminished responsibility MIND MAP

    7. Loss of control

    8. → Loss of control MIND MAP

    9. PRACTICE MCQs: Murder and partial defences

    1. Overview of involuntary manslaughter

    2. Unlawful act manslaughter

    3. → Unlawful manslaughter MIND MAP

    4. Gross negligence manslaughter

    5. → Gross negligence manslaughter MIND MAP

    6. PRACTICE MCQs: Involuntary manslaughter

    1. Overview of theft and other property offences

    2. Theft

    3. Robbery

    4. → Robbery MIND MAP

    5. Burglary

    6. Aggravated burglary

    7. → Aggravated burglary MIND MAP

    8. PRACTICE MCQs: Theft and other property offences

    1. Overview of fraud

    2. What is fraud?

    3. Fraud by false representation

    4. → Fraud by false representation MIND MAP

    5. Fraud by failing to disclose information

    6. → Fraud by failing to disclose information MIND MAP

    7. Fraud by abuse of position

    8. → Fraud by abuse of position MIND MAP

    9. PRACTICE MCQs: Fraud

    1. Overview of criminal damage

    2. Criminal damage

    3. Aggravated criminal damage

    4. → Aggravated criminal damage MIND MAP

    5. Arson

    6. → Arson MIND MAP

    7. Aggravated arson

    8. PRACTICE MCQs: Criminal damage

    1. Overview of defences

    2. Potential defences

    3. Intoxication

    4. → Intoxication MIND MAP

    5. Self-defence and the prevention of crime

    6. → Self-defence and the prevention of crime MIND MAP

    7. PRACTICE MCQs: Defences

    1. Overview of inchoate offences

    2. Attempts

    3. Impossibility

    4. → Impossibility MIND MAP

    5. PRACTICE MCQs: Inchoate offences

    1. Overview of accomplices and multiple parties to a crime

    2. Introduction to accomplices

    3. Accomplice liability

    4. Collateral offences, deviations and differences

    5. → Collateral offences deviations and differences MIND MAP

    6. Joint enterprise liability

    7. → Joint enterprise liability MIND MAP

    8. Withdrawal of participation

    9. PRACTICE MCQs: Accomplices and multiple parties to a crime

    1. Instructions

    2. Criminal liability MOCK EXAMS

Criminal liability

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  • 1.5 hours of video content
  • 24 mind maps

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Jake Schogger

Co-founder, Lawyer & Education Expert

Jake Schogger is a best-selling commercial awareness author, ex-Magic Circle lawyer, co-founder of Law Student Academy, and the founder and CEO of legal careers platform Commercial Law Academy.

He trained at Freshfields, then spent years at a boutique law firm advising start-ups and scale-ups on a range of corporate, commercial and employment matters. He has also published eight books covering career development and legal education (including two best-sellers), worked extensively as a career coach, and delivered countless employability and skills presentations at leading universities and law firms across the UK.

Connect with Jake on LinkedIn via www.linkedin.com/in/jakeschogger

James Richardson

Co-founder, Senior Lawyer & Academic Author

James is a highly experienced solicitor and academic legal author. He trained and qualified at major transatlantic firm Hogan Lovells, where he worked for years in their Commercial Litigation, Product Liability, and Insurance team. After stints in Hong Kong, Munich, and working as an M&A Underwriter, James moved in-house and is currently Head of Legal, Risk and Compliance at Insurtech scale-up Cuvva.

James also founded and ran Law Answered for a decade, where he published 42 critically-acclaimed revision guides for postgraduate law courses, which have helped tens of thousands of students through their exams.

Connect with James on LinkedIn via www.linkedin.com/in/jamrichardson

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