Impossibility

Cards (5)

  • S1(2) Criminal Attemps Act 1981
  • "A person may be guilty of attempting to commit an offence ... even thought the facts are such that the commission of the offence is impossible"
  • Def can be guilty if full offence is physically impossible (Shivpuri)
  • Legal impossibility (Taaffe)
  • Factual impossibility - def will be guilty (Jones)