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Offences of strict liability are those crimes which do not require mens rea with regard to at least one or more elements of the actus reus.
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Nick Sutherland Mock Exam Scenario Offences of strict liability are those crimes which do not require mens rea with regard to at least one or more elements of the actus reus. The defendant need not have intended or known about that circumstance or consequence. Liability is said to be strict with regard to that element. A broad example of this principle can be seen in the case of R V Prince (1875). In this case, the defendant ran off with an under-age girl. He was charged with an offence of taking a girl under the age of 16 out of the possession of her parents contrary to s55 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 (now s20 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956). The defendant knew that the girl was in the custody of her father, but he believed on reasonable grounds that the girl was aged 18. It was held that...
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