{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:11","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Causation","number":"11","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/11/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART I — THE GENERAL PART","book":"BOOK I — OFFENCES AND THE OFFENDER","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 3. — Elements of Criminal Responsibility"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"A person causes a result only where the conduct in the normal course of things brings about its occurrence, and the conduct is not superseded by any other cause that is beyond that person's control, unforeseeable or extremely improbable, and sufficient in itself to produce the result.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/11/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":34,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/34/?article=11&paragraph=lead#article-11-lead"}]}],"caution":"English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation."}