cases for homicide

Question 1

Smith

Answer 1

• stabbed
• Dropped
  -poor medical care
• However wound still substantive operating cause

Question 2

Blaue

Answer 2

• stabbed
• refused treatment
• however still liable even if offence could have been prevented

Question 3

Pagget

Answer 3

Hostage case
- NAI

Question 4

Tomars

Answer 4

• Motor cyclist
• Getting harassed by people in care
• turns lights off
  gets hit
• applies a reasonably foreseeable test

Question 5

Kennedy

Answer 5

Prepared dose of heroin for someone
- d left room
person injected themselves
person died
- voluntary act therefore breaks line of causation

Question 6

Hallet

Answer 6

Assaulted him
- left him on beach
- tide came up and he drowned
- still liable

Question 7

Renata

Answer 7

3 men assaulted v by kicking him
- kicked in abdomen and dies from just exploding
- still liable even if death occurs in unexpected way

Question 8

Hawkins

Answer 8

• Driving no license because epilepsy
• has seizure
  crashes into someone and kills them
• Court stated unlawful act must actually cause death
  driving without the license was the unlawful act whereas it was the seizure that killed someone