| 1. | They indicated the court was unwilling to impose such " absolute liability ."
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| 2. | Mistake of fact is unavailable in respect to absolute liability offences.
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| 3. | In other words, absolute liability is strict liability without any exception.
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| 4. | One of the controversies in Indian tort law concerns the rule on absolute liability.
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| 5. | In Canada, absolute liability is one of three types of criminal or regulatory offences.
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| 6. | This includes provincial and federal offences, criminal or otherwise, but precludes any absolute liability offences.
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| 7. | To determine if an offence is an absolute liability offence, the courts must look at:
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| 8. | Strict liability is sometimes distinguished from absolute liability.
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| 9. | Therefore, most offences are not absolute liability offences, and usually will require an explicit statement in the statute.
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| 10. | The issue before the court was whether the city's offence should be classified as strict liability or absolute liability.
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