Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each offence by the classification based on who can commit it.
Groups: Common offence · Special offence · Offence of one's own hand
- Bigamy by marrying person
- Custodial breach of duty
- Homicide by anyone
- Prevarication by official
- Perjury by a witness
- Theft by anyone
Hints
- Ask in each case whether the statute restricts who the author can be, and whether it requires personal performance.
- The third column is a narrower case of the second.
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Common offence: Homicide by anyone, Theft by anyone
Special offence: Prevarication by official, Custodial breach of duty
Offence of one's own hand: Perjury by a witness, Bigamy by marrying person
Why
The third column matters for the next lesson. Because an offence of one's own hand requires the author to perform the act personally, someone who uses another person as an instrument cannot be its author, the doctrine of indirect authorship simply does not reach it, however complete their control of the event.
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