The Definition of Oblique Intention

Itzhak Kugler*

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Abstract

The Law Commission contended that a person should not be held as having oblique intention with respect to a result if his whole purpose in acting is to avoid this result. This article asserts that the Commission was wrong concerning this point. The justifications that it gave for the rule it suggested are not convincing, while the rationales for the doctrine of oblique intention apply even to cases in which the whole purpose of the actor, in acting, is to avoid the proscribed result.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)79-83
Number of pages5
JournalJournal of Criminal Law
Volume68
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2004

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© 2004 SAGE Publications.

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