'Common purpose' in document 'Saint Lucia - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

CHAPTER ONE
General Provisions

PART IV
PARTICIPATION AND INCHOATE OFFENCES

Conspiracy

Conspiracy to commit crime
73. If two or more persons agree or act together with common purpose of committing a crime, whether with or without any previous deliberation, each of them commits the offence of conspiracy to commit that crime, and it is immaterial if the crime was not actually committed due to the existence of circumstances which rendered the commission of the crime impossible.

CHAPTER ONE
General Provisions

PART IV
PARTICIPATION AND INCHOATE OFFENCES

Conspiracy

Conspiracy to aid and abet a crime
74.— (1) If two or more persons agree or act together with a common purpose of aiding and abetting a crime, whether with or without any previous deliberation, each of them commits the offence of conspiracy to aid and abet that crime, and it is immaterial if the crime was not actually committed due to the existence of circumstances which rendered the commission of the crime impossible.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 25
Individual criminal responsibility
3. In accordance with this Statute, a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person:
(d) In any other way contributes to the commission or attempted commission of such a crime by a group of persons acting with a common purpose. Such contribution shall be intentional and shall either:
(i) Be made with the aim of furthering the criminal activity or criminal purpose of the group, where such activity or purpose involves the commission of a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court; or
(ii) Be made in the knowledge of the intention of the group to commit the crime