Criminal Offences

2. Intentionally causing damage by starting a fire or explosion.
3. Communicating for the purpose of offering or obtaining sexual services for payment.
5. Intentionally ending someone’s life to relieve suffering (legal only under strict medical-assistance-in-dying rules).
6. Applying force—or attempting or threatening to apply force—to someone without consent.
7. Intentionally causing the death of another person.
9. Wounding, maiming, disfiguring, or endangering the life of another person.
11. Violence or threats used to intimidate the public or government to achieve political or ideological goals.
13. Intentionally deceiving someone to cause a loss of money, property, or service.
15. Selling, giving, transporting, or delivering illegal drugs.
16. Using someone else’s personal information without permission, usually for fraudulent purposes.
18. Intentional killing that is not planned or deliberate.
20. A death where no one is legally at fault (such as self-defence or unavoidable accidents).
21. Repeatedly following, watching, or communicating with someone in a way that causes them to fear for their safety.
23. A mother causing the death of her newborn due to the effects of childbirth or mental disturbance.
24. A death caused by unlawful or blameworthy actions (includes murder and manslaughter).
25. Causing death through an unlawful act, negligence, or heat-of-the-moment behaviour without intent to kill.

1. Assault where the victim suffers injuries that interfere with their health or comfort.
3. Touching someone in a sexual way without consent.
4. Taking someone’s property without permission, permanently or temporarily.
8. Using reasonable force to protect oneself or another from an immediate threat.
10. Illegally entering a place with intent to commit an offence inside.
12. Stealing property while using or threatening violence.
13. A planned and deliberate killing, or a killing committed during certain serious crimes (like kidnapping).
14. Having illegal drugs or prohibited substances under your control.
17. An unintended event causing harm where no reasonable person would be held responsible.
19. An honest belief that you own or have permission to use the property in question.
22. Taking a person away against their will, especially a child.