Crim Cases for PQ Flashcards
But For Test
R v White
More than de minimis
R v Hughes
Natural event unforeseeable break chain
Harlot’s Case
Free, deliberate, informed break chain
Kennedy No.2
Extraordinary and abnormal break chain (old)
Empress Car
Innocent 3P no break
R v Saunders & Archer
If act for self-preservation/legal duty, no break
R v Pagett
Must be so potent and independent (+ sig contribution) to break
R v Cheshire
So daft that reasonable unforeseeable to break
R v Roberts
Thin skull rule
R v Blaue
If got contract got omissions liability
R v Pittwood
Police got duty to help
R v Dytham
If create dangerous situation got duty to rectify
R v Miller
If create dangerous situation got duty to rectify
R v Evans
Parents got duty to child
R v Gibbins & Proctor
Blood relative got duty (Stone), if take in as lodger got duty (Dobinson)
R v Stone & Dobinson
Friends like brothers got duty
R v Sinclair
If act is continuing then AR can coincide w MR
Fagan v Metropolitan Police
1) Virtual Certainty 2) Foresight 3) Jury entitled
R v Woollin
Foresee risk + know unreasonable to take risk
R v G
MR can be transferred if AR on V + offence same
R v Latimer
D aware of necessary degree risk (see R v G)
R v Lidar
1) Duty breached 2) Obvious and serious risk 3) Causation 4) Grossness
Adomako
Unlawful act + all sober and reasonable people foresee risk of some harm
R v Church
Knowledge of risk can be gained mid act
R v Watson
Cannot premeditation, need loss of reasoning
R v Jewell
Breakups usually not qualifying trigger, but take into account circumstances
R v Dawes
Sexual infidelity not qualifying trigger, but can evidence w others
R v Clinton
Conditional battery =/= assault
Tuberville v Savage
Everyday contact
Collins v Wilcock
Indirect contact can
DPP v K
More than merely transient and trifling
R v Donovan
Psychiatric harm included
R v Dhaliwal
Every layer of skin broken
JCC v Eisenhower
Really serious harm
DPP v Smith
Serious psychiatric harm qualify
R v Burstow
Include transmission of disease
R v Dica
Same race can, but cannot be directed at conduct
R v Pal
Same race can, but cannot be directed at conduct
Cain v CPS
Honest belief in serious violence
R v Williams (Gladstone)
Can pre-empt if honest belief
R v Bird
Objective and reasonable test + take into account heat of moment
R v Palmer
Provocation no open for SD
R v Keane
Voluntary intoxication no open for SD, unless honest belief not bc intoxication
R v O’grady
Sadomasochistic no
R v Brown
Branding w hot knife can (Tattooing)
R v Wilson
Body modification no
R v BM
Sports yes
R v Barnes