Mens Rea

3. Landmark case where a belt strike hit an unintended bystander.
6. Taking an unjustified risk while consciously aware of that risk.
7. Offences requiring no proof of mens rea for the actus reus.
9. Malice where a defendant's intent shifts from an intended victim to an actual victim.
12. The classic case establishing the modern test for subjective recklessness.
13. The mental element or guilty mind required to establish criminal liability.
14. Intention where a consequence is a virtually certain side effect.
15. Failure to meet the standard of a reasonable person.

1. The principle that actus reus and mens rea must occur together.
2. Intention where the consequence is the defendant's specific aim or purpose.
4. The legal principle that criminal liability should reflect personal blameworthiness.
5. Case showing intent cannot transfer between different categories of crime.
8. Legal fiction stretching actus reus across time, seen in Fagan.
10. Perspective assessing what the actual defendant was thinking at the time.
11. The high evidential threshold for oblique intention established in Woollin.