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Ques will be available at 2:30 pm, 20th may, we will have 4.5 hrs to complete The assignment is about uk law There will be two Questions, and you have to do each in 1500 words the answers should be based on the above lecture notes and from the textbook Textbook: Jonathan Herring, Criminal Law: text, cases, and Materials (10th edition, 2022) Note - ou are NOT expected to cite your sources in footnotes in accordance with OSCOLA or any other formal referencing system. However, you are expected to indicate in the main body of the text to which sources you are referring or paraphrasing (e.g. "As argued by [author] in [book or article title]...", "The case of X v Y established that..."), including the core textbook. Furthermore, any verbatim quotes from sources should be in quotation marks ('...'). Footnotes and a bibliography are NOT required./nQuestion 2 Alice has sexual intercourse with Billy because he promises to pay her £50, but he runs off without paying her afterwards. Her husband, Colin, is angry with her for not obtaining the money. He beats her so hard that she suffers permanent scarring, and also smashes her television because he is so angry with her. Diana, her daughter, suffers bruises in this attack when Colin accidentally hits her. Alice subsequently commits suicide because she is so depressed by her scarring. Advise Billy and Colin. -obtaining services by perception -1st sentence: no fetal offence -no fetal offence that arises from permanent scarring -recklessness might be relevant to Diana -why Alice committed suicide? -criminal damage -Diana: Colin accidentally hit her so does he have the mens rea? -transferred malice so he had the mens rea for unlawful conduct -last sentence: depression is a serious harm -involuntary manslaughter: unlawful act that's dangerous (a reasonable person could see some harm from the unlawful act, e.g., s20 when he's attacking someone) -but for causation: scaring

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