Criminal Assignment Dick should be advised that he could be liable for Indecent Assault. Although no force was used against the boy, creating fear is sufficient and the boy may have been frightened of Dick. However, Dick will be strictly liable under the Indecency with Children Act 1960. By s.1 of this statute "any person who commits an act of gross indecency with or towards a child under the age of fourteen, or who incites a …
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…failed to remove it or warn that it was there. Professor Ashworth (1989) 105 LQR 424 argues in favour of assistance. In his view life is such a basic value that it must be preserved and that public good should outweigh the public good of liberty not to act. Making people liable for omissions would encourage others to interfere in matters which do not concern them. Bibliography Crimminal Law - Michael Jefferson Crimminal Law - Elliot and Quinn