Beyond conspiracy essay

There are other primary sources of law on conspiracy like the Companies Act, Kenya Defence Forces Act, Insolvency Act and Anti Corruption and economic crimes Act just to list a few. Conspiracy to defeat justice and interference with witnesses. This offence is found in the Penal Code under section 117.

The only differentiating factor between conspiracy and attempt is that there is an agreement between two or more people plus the substantial step [5] in conspiracy while in attempt there is no agreement, just the substantive step.

The court held that ‘a company and a director cannot be convicted of conspiracy when the only human being who is said to have broken the law or intended to do so is the director’ [25] In a case of conspiracy between a person and a company, two or more people must be involved.

The offence of conspiracy Introduction A conspiracy is an alliance between two or more people with the motive of committing an unlawful act or an act which though lawful in itself, becomes unlawful once it is the object of the alliance[1].The latter may occur when accomplishing a lawful end by unlawful means[2].