Criminal Law

Leila and Malik are having a cigarette together in the outdoor smoking area of the 95-Degrees nightclub. Leila stubs her cigarette out in the smoking trays provided. However, Malik flicks his lighted cigarette, which lands inside a large industrial bin a few metres away. Leila sees this and says, “Did you see where that went?” Malik replies, “Yes. I didn’t mean it to go in the bin I’m sure it will be okay.” Both head back inside the nightclub. After about ten minutes, Malik goes back outside. To his dismay, he sees white smoke rising from the bin. He decides to leave the club without raising the alarm. Within half an hour the fire in the bin spreads to the club, setting fire to its roof. Around one thousand people have to be evacuated from it. However, the fire chief later informs the owners of 95-Degrees that it was very lucky that no-one was killed by the fire.

Malik watches the fire from a distance. As he does so he is approached by a group of students who have been evacuated from the club. One of these students, Emilia, points at Malik and says, “I saw you flick that cigarette! It was you who did this.” Malik pushes Emilia out of the way, causing her to stumble and fall on a broken bottle on the pavement, cutting her arm. Another student, Gavin, shouts at Malik, “That’s my girlfriend! I’m calling the Police!” Malik loses his temper and picks up the broken bottle and lunges at Gavin with it. The broken bottle slices deep into Gavin’s cheek. Malik runs off, only to be arrested later.

Consider the liability of Malik for criminal damage and/or offences against the person, as appropriate.

Students should not discuss any potential ‘self-defence’ and the corresponding ‘what is reasonably necessary’ issues. ©

2015 – 2016 Academic Session
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When marking this assignment we are looking for evidence that you’ve achieved the following assessed outcomes: OUTCOME     HOW TO DEMONSTRATE THE OUTCOMES IN
THIS ASSESSMENT     WEIGHTING
(INDICATIVE)
LEVEL 5
AO 1     Understanding
Your legal knowledge
• You can retrieve, explain and apply relevant, and up-to-date, legal authority.

• Your work demonstrates an accurate explanation and definition of legal rules (and where appropriate principles and standards and their underlying values)

• Your work identifies relevant legal issues and explains the law relevant to the question set
40%
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Your range and depth of analysis and evaluation
• You can argue from claims to conclusions using appropriate legal evidence to create a persuasive argument.

• You can show some of the limitations of the both the claims you make and the evidential base used to support them.
25%
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Your range of sources, citations and referencing
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• Your work complies with the academic regulations on ‘unfair means to enhance performance’: see the assessment handbook http://www.uclan.ac.uk/aqasu/academic_regulations.php
20%
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Your structure, style, spelling, grammar and punctuation
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• Your work is legible, coherently expressed and articulates a clear, structured legal argument, and is free from grammatical, punctuation and spelling errors.
• You can produce your work to agreed word limit – for this assessment it is 1, 200 words – and to an agreed deadline.
15%

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