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Common purpose

The doctrine of common purpose, common design, joint enterprise, joint criminal enterprise or parasitic accessory liability is a common law legal doctrine that imputes criminal liability to the participants in a criminal enterprise for all reasonable results from that enterprise. The common purpose doctrine was established in English law, and later…

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related to References · 22
Common purpose → Baker, Chapter, Criminal Law, Criminal Law Theory, Dennis, Doctrine, Encouraging One's Own Murder, Glanville Williams, ISBN, Joint Enterprise Cases, King's Law Journal, Liability, London, London University Press, Maxwell, Other Exempt Parties, Pearson, Sweet, Textbook, Victims
related to English law · 12
Common purpose → An, Car, English, It, One, Osborne, Swindall, This, Thus, Two, Until, When

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