Actus Reus Flashcards
DPP v Santana Bermudez 2003
OMISSIONS
Needle and Police - smirk
Creates danger- foreseeable risk of injury
Fagan v Commissioner of Metropolitan Police 1969
OMISSIONS
Car on foot
Superimpose MR on continuing AR
Miller 1983
OMISSIONS
Squatter arson
Responsibility Theory
Pittwood 1902
OMISSIONS
Railway Gate
Duty + But For
Stone and Robinson 1977
OMISSIONS
Sister anorexia - died
Manslaughter - DoC + Blood
Airedale NHS Trust v Bland 1993
OMISSIONS
PVS - life support
Omission - not criminal unless doc under DoC to continue
Evans 2009
OMISSIONS
Sister supplied heroin - Gross Neg Manslaughter
Familial DoC
AG Ref 2 1993
VOLUNTARINESS
Crash - need total loss of control
Coley 2013
VOLUNTARINESS
Cannabis - external = not insanity
White 1910
CAUSATION
Mum cyanide - heart attack
Roberts 1972
CAUSATION
Jumped from car - natural result
Michael 1840
CAUSATION
Milk - kid innocent agent
Cheshire 1991
CAUSATION
Medical blunder - contributed significantly
Blaue 1975
CAUSATION
Jehovah’s witness - take V as they find them
Pagett 1983
CAUSATION
Gf shield - Alternative Danger
Jordan 1956
CAUSATION
Stab V died due to drug
Broke chain - treatment ‘not normal and palpably wrong’
Smith 1959
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’
Environmental Agency v Empress Car 1999
CAUSATION
Oil tap - not extraordinary
‘normal and familiar fact of life’?
R v Kennedy 2007
CAUSATION
Administered injection
Limit Empress Car to pollution
Voluntary and informed V?
