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Criminal Law - EXTRA ACADEMICS Flashcards

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1
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Who gave examples of indirect intention not likely to convict, including throwing your child from a burning building, hoping they will survive?

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Lord Goff

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What is the principle of maximum certainty?

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Law should be as clear as possible, with only some ambiguity to allow development (OAP allowed development in Burstow and Ireland)

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What did Hobhouse argue in Hinks?

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Violated legal certainty (RoL) as such heavy reliance on dishonesty

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What did the case of R v Blaue show the courts doing?

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Tranposing a civil law concept into criminal law

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What judge in Pagett argued that the shot by the police was not an NA at all?

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Goff LJ

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How did Herring reconcile Blaue and Roberts?

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Taking into account V’s characteristics - Jehovah’s witness would, reasonably foreseeably, reject a blood transfusion

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Roberts and Mitchell on discretion of judge in murder

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Does not always help as still always at risk ‘of recall to prison for the rest of his natural life’

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What two articles (Academic names only) look at theft?

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Gardner and Bogg and Stenton-Ife

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Who said it was ‘passing strange’ to convict of murder for harm which would ‘in most cases be unlikely to kill’?

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Lord Edmund-Davies in R v Cunningham

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Who do Bogg and Stenton-Ife not agree with?

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Horder and Shute

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Who in Hinks said that it is against common sense that a gift can be received dishonestly?

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Hutton

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Who said MR of doctors is ‘negated’ if they act ‘bona fide’?

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Lord Scarman in Gillick

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In what case, at paragraph 107, did the court argue that novus actus in continuing act may divide MR from AR, meaning there is no crime?

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R v Le Brun

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Who adopts the idea of ‘last act necessary’ when deciding if subsequent NA relieves liability?

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Williams

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Who said that ‘however much the terminologies may differ the ethical status of the two course of action is for all relevant purposes indistinguishable’?

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Keown

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Who said the Nedrick test had ‘moral elbow room’?

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Ashworth

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What did Keown say about the distinction between passive and active killing?

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‘however much the terminologies may differ the ethical status of the two course of action is for all relevant purposes indistinguishable’

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Who reconciled Blaue and Roberts on the topic of foreseeability?

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Herring

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Who argued for a new exceptional category to protect SM activity?

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Bamforth

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What two consequent cases criticised the decision in Gamble?

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Rehman and Powell and English

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Who argued restricting consensual sexual behaviour may cause misery through suppression?

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HLA Hart

17
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Who argued loss of control mirrors inner pathology but can also authorise certain conduct?

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Edwards

18
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Who showed how self-defence is gendered, meaning that defence by a woman/child is always apriori disproportionate?

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Edwards

20
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In what case did the courts transpose a civil law concept into the criminal law?

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R v Blaue

22
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Lord Edmund-Davies in R v Cunningham

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Who said it was ‘passing strange’ to convict of murder for harm which would ‘in most cases be unlikely to kill’?

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What did Edwards argue about self-defence?

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self-defence is gendered, meaning that defence by a woman/child is always apriori disproportionate

25
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Who said that a discretion in murder on sentencing is of little help?

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Roberts and Mitchell

26
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What section of the Theft Act did Hutton rely on for his argument?

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S.2(1)(b)

27
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Who argued the courts excuse the ‘venial intervener’ who acts semi-forgivably?

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Williams

28
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What did Bogg and Stenton-Ife try to argue in response to Hobhouse in Hinks?

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No violation of legal certainty or autonomy because she was not acting honestly in an objective manner - thin ice principle

29
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What two judges dissented in Hinks?

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Hothouse and Hutton

31
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R v Inglis quote

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‘the law of murder does not distinguish between murder committed for malevolent reasons and murder motivated by familial love’

32
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What principle did Bogg and Stenton-Ife invoke to argue against Hothouse on Hinks?

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Thin ice principle

33
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who said that novus actus ‘accords with our ideas of moral responsibility and just punishment?

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Williams

34
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Who was the only judge to support Gamble in English?

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Bingham

35
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Robrts and Mitchell on murder definition

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currently ‘so imperfect’ that not all murderers have committed the worst form of criminal homicide, nor those who are liable for less have committed less forms

36
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What judge gave a reason why Gamble may have been decided the way it was in English?

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Neuberger

37
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Who argued the decision in R v Brown ignored the social meaning the act had for its participants?

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Bamforth

38
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Who argued JE had led to prejudice/discrimination, as 80% from black/mixed race communities?

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Janet Cunliffe, JENGbA

40
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Who in Hinks said that s.2(1)(b) recognises the fact that a person receiving a gift is not dishonest?

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Hutton

41
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‘Moral elbow room’ of what?

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Of the Nedrick Test

42
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Who argued that a voluntary transfer should fall outside of the Theft Act if it doesn’t come under s.15?

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Horder and Shute

43
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Who argued only an intervening guilty act could shift responsibility away from the main perpetrator?

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Williams

44
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What did Hart and Honore say about NA?

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In R v Blaue it was not an NA at all - involuntary

45
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Why did Goff LJ in Pagett argue no NA?

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Self-defence is an involuntary response

46
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What is the thin ice principle?

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On the border between criminal and legal behaviour, so shouldn’t expect a precise guide as to where you will fall in

47
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At what paragraph did the court in Le Brun say an NA in a continuing act could remove liability?

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Paragraph 107

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