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Key features of criminal attempts

Nigel Briggs provides an overview of the key features of criminal attempts and gives advice on what to include in examination answers

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This article is relevant for OCR A2 Unit G153.

The law on attempts is a fairly recently reformed area of the criminal law. It does not apply to summary offences or crimes committed by omission. Originally developed by the common law, ‘attempt’ is now contained in the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 s.1(1):

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