The document defines blackmail as making unwarranted demands with menaces with the view to gain for oneself or cause loss to another. An unwarranted demand is one made without belief in having good reason. The mens rea of blackmail is the intention to reinforce a demand by menacing behavior. The defendant must believe they have good reason for making the demand and that using menaces appropriately reinforces it. If a defendant can prove these beliefs, they are not guilty of blackmail. The document also lists some example cases related to blackmail.

2. The Actus Reus of Blackmail:____________________________________________________________________________________

3. What is an ‘unwarranted demand’? ___________________________________________________________________________________

4. The Mens Rea of Blackmail: An intention to __________________________. Doing so with a _______________________________________________________. The two tests set out in section 21 are that the Defendant has to show that he believed that:________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________If both of these tests can be proved the Defendant is _______________ of blackmail.

5. Some examples of property include:_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Case name: DescriptionWhat it held: Collister and Warhurst 1955Treacy v DPP 1971 Thorne v Motor Trade Association 1937Garwood 1987 Lawrence and Pomroy 1971Harry 1974 Clear 1968 Harvey 1981Bevans 1988 <br />