Non Fatal Offences Cases

Question 1

Lord Coke

Answer 1

Unlawful killing of a reasonable creature under the kings peace with malice aforethought expressed or implied

Question 2

R v Gibbins v Proctor

Answer 2

Unlawful killing

Question 3

AG’s Ref No.3 1994

Answer 3

Life begins when a child is able to have an independent existence outside of the womb

Question 4

Malcherek and Steel

Answer 4

Life support machine “brain death”

Question 5

Jewell

Answer 5

Loss of ability to act in accordance with considered judgment or a loss of normal powers of reasoning

Question 6

R v Ward

Answer 6

Fear of serious violence

Question 7

R v Hatter

Answer 7

Things said or done

Question 8

Dawes

Answer 8

Discarded sexual infidelity

Question 9

Asmelash

Answer 9

Intoxication will not be taken into account

Question 10

Bryne

Answer 10

A state of mind so different from that of an ordinary human being that a reasonable man would term it abnormal

Question 11

Woods

Answer 11

Alcohol dependency

Question 12

Seers

Answer 12

Chronic depression

Question 13

Golds

Answer 13

The impairment must be “important or weighty”

Question 14

Dowds

Answer 14

D substantial impairment cannot come from intoxication alone