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[2018] WLR (D) 442
Supreme Court
Regina v Lane and another
[2018] UKSC 36
2018 April 19; July 11
Baroness Hale of Richmond PSC, Lord Burnett LCJ, Lord Hughes, Lord Hodge JJSC, Lord Mance
Crime— Mens rea— Funding arrangement for purposes of terrorism— Defendants charged with sending money abroad knowing or having reasonable cause to suspect that it would be used for terrorist purposes— Whether requirement for mens rea to be implied— Whether “reasonable cause to suspect” connoting reasonable suspicion— Whether sufficient for prosecution to show that, on information known to defendants, there existed objectively reasonable cause to suspect that money might be used for purposes of terrorism— Whether offence of strict liability—
Terrorism Act 2000 (c 11), s 17(b)