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LW2041: Criminal Law The question concerned is whether Amina is liable for the murder of Yasin and Khadija. In order for Amina to be liable for murder the Actus Reus and Mens Rea have to be satisfied and also defences such as provocation and diminished responsibility need to be considered. There is no clear definition of murder, as it has yet not been defined by parliament. However a brief definition has been given by Chief Justice Coke from the early seventeenth century: "Murder is where a person of sound memory and of the age of discretion unlawfully killeth... any reasonable creature in rerum natura under the king's peace, with malice aforethought, either expressed by party or implied by law, so as the party wounded or hurt etc., die of the wound or hurt etc."1 Actus reus is the wrongful act that makes up the physical action of a crime2. The actus reus of...

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