Murder Flashcards
1
Q
R v Vickers
A
- D broke into sweet shop intending to cause GBH to deaf shop owner.
- Intention to cause GBH is enough to be convicted of murder.
2
Q
R v Gibbins and Proctor
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- Father and his girlfriend starved 1 of 7 children to death.
- An omission satisfies the actus reus for murder.
3
Q
R v Clegg
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- A soldier used excessive force, killing a joyrider who failed to stop at a checkpoint.
- D’s lack of ‘wicked-or-evil’ motive did not preclude his actions from being unlawful.
4
Q
R v Malcherek
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- Doctors switched off life-support machines as neither victim was showing any activity in their brain stem.
- Confirms ‘brain stem’ as the current medical test for death.
5
Q
R v Inglis
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- D killed her son who was in a persistent vegetive state following an accident.
- ‘A disabled life, even if a life lived at the extremes of disability, is not one jot less precious than the life of an able-bodied person.’
6
Q
Attorney General Reference No.3 of 1994
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- Pregnant woman was stabbed in the abdomen.
- The baby was born alive but died 112 days later due to its premature and traumatic birth.
- Murder or manslaughter is committed where the baby dies after being born.
7
Q
DPP v Smith
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- The wording is more relevant than facts.
- ‘Grievous means no more or no less than really serious’
