CRW1501 Assignment 1/Semester 1/2022 Due date: 23 March 2022 Unique Number: 683600

You must read and understand the first four (4) study units of the CRW1501 Study Guide before you answer the assignment below. Please note that you only have to refer to the CRW1501 Study Guide in order to answer this assignment. There is NO need to use any other source(s). In the reference list at the end of the assignment, the only source you would refer to is: K Naidoo and B Gordon, Introduction to Criminal Law Study Guide (Unisa Pretoria 2016).

Question one Briefly explain whether the following charge meets the requirements of the principle of legality: A law prohibiting smoking in restaurants comes into effect on 1 January 2021. The next day, X, the owner of a restaurant lays a charge against Y because Y smoked in his restaurant on 31 December 2020. [3]

Question Two List three factors which exclude the voluntary nature of an act. [3]

Question Three Explain what you understand by the theory of novus actus interveniens. [4] TOTAL MARKS: 10