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The objects of this article are to show (i) that strict criminal liability violates several Articles of the European Convention on Human Rights incorporated into British laws by the Human Rights Act 1998, and (ii) that in spite of the utilitarian arguments advanced for its retention, civil sanctions would offer equivalent possibility of enforcing regulatory offences.

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This page is a summary of: Strict Criminal Liability: A Violation of the Convention?, The Journal of Criminal Law, December 2006, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1350/jcla.2006.70.6.531.
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