Bahamas

Chapter 84 - Penal Code

BOOK I
GENERAL

TITLE ii
GENERAL AND SPECIAL RULES OF CRIMINAL LAW

14. Provisions relating to causing an event.

(3) A person shall not be convicted of having intentionally or negligently caused an event if, notwith-standing his act and the acts of any person acting jointly with him, the event would not have happened but for the existence of some state of facts or the intervention of some other event or of some other person, the probability of the existence or intervention of which other event or person the accused person did not take into consideration, and had no reason to take into consideration. This provision shall not apply where a person is charged with having caused an event by an omission to perform a duty for averting the event.

Keywords

Individual criminal responsibility
Mental element
Negligence
Intent - national proceedings



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