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  • mens rea : a culpable mental state especially : one involving intent or knowledge and forming an element of a criminal offense

    It doesn’t. Otherwise one could just say “Sorry I was daydreaming and simply didn’t today attention.” and get off the liability. This is, in fact, the relevant word:

    Many traffic offences, including speeding, are considered strict liability offences in virtually every jurisdiction, which means that it is sufficient to prove that the act occurred and it is unnecessary to prove intent. In such cases, whether or not an offender meant to commit the offence is irrelevant. For strict liability offences, lawyers are unable to argue that the offender had no knowledge or intentions of committing the offence because what counts is whether the offence was committed.

    A judge would simply look if the elements are proven:

    a) the offence was committed b) no lawful excuse or defence for doing so exists

    However, there is the defence of reasonable mistake. This means that it is sometimes possible for strict liability traffic offences to be refuted if the offender can successfully argue and provide evidence to show that they were genuinely mistaken and did not know they were committing the offence. However, this is different from the mens rea principle.





  • Cutting Edge Engineering.

    Kurtis is a dry-as-a-rabbit-fart humoured Aussie bloke with absolutely incredible skills on metal working machines like lathes, boring machines, welding equipment. Super interesting how he repairs stuff. The channel has grown so much it’s getting borderline re niche.

    He repairs heavy duty equipment and engineers incredible solution for his customers often improving the original parts so it can repaired next time for cheaper.

    His partner shoots and edits the videos. They also have a cool shop dog (shoutout to Homeless).