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Actus Reus Flashcards

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DPP v Santana Bermudez 2003

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OMISSIONS
Needle and Police - smirk
Creates danger- foreseeable risk of injury

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Fagan v Commissioner of Metropolitan Police 1969

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OMISSIONS
Car on foot
Superimpose MR on continuing AR

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Miller 1983

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OMISSIONS
Squatter arson
Responsibility Theory

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Pittwood 1902

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OMISSIONS
Railway Gate
Duty + But For

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Stone and Robinson 1977

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OMISSIONS
Sister anorexia - died
Manslaughter - DoC + Blood

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Airedale NHS Trust v Bland 1993

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OMISSIONS
PVS - life support
Omission - not criminal unless doc under DoC to continue

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Evans 2009

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OMISSIONS
Sister supplied heroin - Gross Neg Manslaughter
Familial DoC

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AG Ref 2 1993

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VOLUNTARINESS

Crash - need total loss of control

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Coley 2013

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VOLUNTARINESS

Cannabis - external = not insanity

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White 1910

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CAUSATION

Mum cyanide - heart attack

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Roberts 1972

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CAUSATION

Jumped from car - natural result

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Michael 1840

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CAUSATION

Milk - kid innocent agent

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Cheshire 1991

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CAUSATION

Medical blunder - contributed significantly

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Blaue 1975

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CAUSATION

Jehovah’s witness - take V as they find them

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Pagett 1983

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CAUSATION

Gf shield - Alternative Danger

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Jordan 1956

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CAUSATION
Stab V died due to drug
Broke chain - treatment ‘not normal and palpably wrong’

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Smith 1959

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CAUSATION
Time of death - wound operating factor
‘only if the second cause is so overwhelming as to make the original wound Merely part of the history can it be said that the death does not flow from the wound’

18
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Environmental Agency v Empress Car 1999

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CAUSATION
Oil tap - not extraordinary
‘normal and familiar fact of life’?

19
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R v Kennedy 2007

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CAUSATION
Administered injection
Limit Empress Car to pollution
Voluntary and informed V?

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