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The majority of criminal offences require acts or omissions on the part of the defendant. Such acts or omissions must ordinarily be willed or ‘voluntary’ and often require a positive act from the defendant. Although absolute liability (see below at 2.5) need not involve a positive or voluntary act on the part of the accused, it still requires the accused to have done something, or more accurately, ‘be somewhere’.

We shall now consider both of these concepts.