Zimbabwe

Criminal Law (codification and reform) Act

CHAPTER II
ELEMENTS OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY

PART II
CRIMINAL CONDUCT

11 Causation

(1) A person shall not be held criminally liable for a consequence unless the person’s conduct caused or substantially contributed to its occurrence.

(2) A person’s conduct shall be deemed to have caused or substantially contributed to a consequence for the purposes of subsection (1) if the conduct—
(a) is the factual cause of the consequence, that is, but for the conduct the consequence would not have occurred; and
(b) is the legal cause of the consequence, that is, the consequence—
(i) was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of his or her conduct; or
(ii) was brought about by a new cause supervening after his or her conduct, which cause was itself a reasonably foreseeable consequence of his or her conduct.

Keywords

Individual criminal responsibility



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