Yemen

Republican Decree for Law No 12 for the Year 1994 Concerning Crimes and Penalties

Book ONE
General Provisions on Crimes and Punishments

Part One
Crimes

Chapter Two
Crimes

Section One
The Elements of a Crime

Causal Linkage

Article (7):
A person shall not be liable for a crime, which the Law requires for its consummation a specific result thereof, unless the conduct of such a person in deed or omission was the cause leading to the occurrence of such result; Causal Linkage is shall stand, whenever in the normal course of events in life, the conduct of the perpetrator was the cause of the result; what ever he caused which leads to a loss, provided that such linkage is rejected if another factor is involved, which in itself is adequate to lead to the same result, wherein such case the liability of the person for his conduct, if the Law incriminates such a person for anything separate from such result.

Keywords

Individual criminal responsibility



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