ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the inchoate offences that commits before the primary criminal act takes place. The focus of inchoate offences is on the activity that takes place before the crime commits. The chapter considers: the coverage of inchoate offences by considering the offence of conspiracy that are common law conspiracy and statutory conspiracy that governs the Criminal Law Act. The actus reus for the offence is: an agreement between parties to carry out a course of conduct to the commission of an offence and the mens rea for the offence is: an intention to carry out agreed course of conduct, intention to commit the substantive offence. This chapter deals with conspiracy, attempt, encouraging and assisting of inchoate offences. It discusses the coverage of inchoate offences by considering the offence of conspiracy which is an agreement between parties to commit a crime and punished to commit the intended offence in the Criminal Law Act (CLA).
