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Actus Reus
The Actus Reus ,originating from the Latin for "Guilty Act", is one of the basic criminal elements needed to commit a crime. It can be carried out by doing or falling to do part of a crime.
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Attempts
Attempts is when someone tries to commit a crime but at some point fails. It exists to prevent offenders from reoffending by punishing them for their attempts to offend.
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Non Fatal Offences
Non fatal offences are offences which take the form of an attack directed at another person, that do result tin injury but not death.
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Defence of Consent
The defence of consent might prevent the defendant from incurring liability for what was done if he can prove that the victim had given him a consent in the first place.
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Defence of Insanity
Insanity is a defence based on the idea that the defendant was unable to understand what he was doing or did not know his actions were unlawful.
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Defence of Automatism
Automatism is very rarely used as a criminal defence. It offer defence to defendant where he wasn't aware/ or in control of his actions.
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Theft
Theft is the taking another person's property with or without their consent with the intention to permanently deprive the owner of his rights to the property and the property itself.
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Robbery
Robbery is a crime which requires theft to be fulfilled as well as the use of force or the threat of force or the fear of the victim being subjective to force.
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Burglary
Burglary is a statutory offence which requires the defendant to have entered a building or part of a building as trespasser with the intention to commit one of the ulterior offences.
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Defence of Duress
The defence of duress is a complete defence operating in favour of those who commit crimes because they are forced or compelled to do so by other circumstances or threats by another.
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Murder
Murder is an offence under the common law. It is considered the most serious form of homicide, in which one person kills another with the intention to unlawfully cause either death or serious injury.
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Omission
The omission of individuals are generally not criminalised in English criminal law however subject to situations of special duty, contractual duty and the creation of dangerous situations.
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