Date of Publication :18th June 2015

Abstract: Liability is one of the concepts which helps in promoting and protecting justice as liability seeks to set the wrong right by making the wrong doer pay damages, compensation or fine. The general principle of civil liability is based upon the concept of negligence and duty to take care. Whereas the criminal liability revolves the concepts of mens rea and actus reus. The strict liability under the criminal law assumes the mens rea to be implicitly present in the actus reus. The strict liability under the civil law imposes liability even if the wrong doer has taken reasonable care, and under the absolute liability no exceptions are available under it and is mostly imposed against the environmental wrongs.

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