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Re: {nsw} When to change trains



"Dave Proctor" <david@spambait.proctor.net> wrote in message
news:s5k9htop3714hu6cfqrpdkkuulau8s4kfj@4ax.com...

| For a criminal offence to occur, there must be "mens rea", i.e.
| "criminal intent" or intent to do the action which is illegal. Now I
| am not saying that I have not performed an action which the
| legislature has said (by way of legislation) is unlawful, but I am
| saying that I did not have the necessary criminal intent (i.e. the
| intent to perform the act which the legislature says is unlawful) at
| the time the offence was committed.

Is there a term for the lack of "mens rea"?