The crime of all crimes' has been committed in Rwanda, the Ottoman Empire, and Cambodia among others. Is it now happening in ...

the mens rea (the mental element of intent or knowledge); and the actus reus (the prohibited acts themselves). For genocide, the intention is specific: to destroy, in whole or in part, a national ...

The Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja, on Monday, threw away the criminal charge filed against Abayomi Alaka by the ...

The last time Luigi Mangione spoke out was before a Pennsylvania court appearance, when he shouted a nearly unintelligible rant about the “insult to the intelligence of the American people.” He broke ...

Justice Mojisola Dada of an Ikeja Special Offences Court, Ikeja has dismissed the criminal charge filed against businessman, ...

Lee stressed that the manner in which the crime was committed must be clearly specified in the charge to establish the actus reus (guilty ... needs to prove three key elements, which are firstly ...

Lee argued that the manner in which the crime was committed must be clearly specified in the charge to establish the actus reus (guilty ... needs to prove three key elements which are firstly ...

and the language used under the said penal law requires a mental element. Being a crime mala in se, there must thus be a concurrence of both actus reus and mens rea to constitute the crime.

I beg to be forgiven for not explaining the mass of legal theory behind these elements, and for using instead two Latin phrases used by lawyers to summarise them: (a) is called the actus reus, and (b) ...