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