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Corporate Conspiracy: Problems Of Mens Rea And The Parties To The Agreement, M. R. Goode

Dalhousie Law Journal

The essence of conspiracy is the agreement or plot formed between two or more parties. Thus, in R. v. Aspinall, for example, Brett J. A. said: ". . . . the crime of conspiracy is completely committed, if it is committed at all, the moment two or more have agreed that they will do, at once and at some future time, certain things." It follows that criminal conspiracy may be loosely defined as a criminal contract: an agreement between two or more "persons". Emphasis will be placed upon the elements of that required agreement in the discussion that follows. First, …