Case link: Attempt – impossibility – Anderton v Ryan BAILII: [1985] UKHL 5 ; [1985] AC 560

“My Lords, it has been strenuously and ably argued for the respondent that these provisions involve that a defendant is liable to conviction for an attempt even where his actions are innocent but he erroneously believes facts which, if true, would make those actions criminal, and further, that he is liable to such conviction whether [...]