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Unlawful Act Manslaughter Flashcards

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1
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A person is guilty of unlawful act manslaughter if…

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he commits an unlawful criminal act, which is objectively dangerous in that it is likely to cause ‘some harm’, and causes death with the MR of that criminal act

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If D does not satisfy all 4 elements of the crime, the death is classified as what?

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‘accidental’

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3
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Lowe 1973

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must be an act, an omission is insufficient

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must be an act, an omission is insufficient

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Lowe 1973

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Lamb 1967

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The act must be unlawful

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The act must be unlawful

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Lamb 1967

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  • The unlawful act can be committed against a person
  • The specific physical injury doesn’t have to be foreseen
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JM and SM 2012

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JM and SM 2012

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  • The unlawful act can be committed against a person
  • The specific physical injury doesn’t have to be foreseen
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9
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The unlawful act can be committed against property

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Goodfellow 1986

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10
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Case in which burglary was a sufficient unlawful act

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Watson 1989

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11
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Goodfellow 1986

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The unlawful act can be committed against property

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12
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Case in which arson was a sufficient unlawful act

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Goodfellow 1986

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What must the unlawful act be?

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dangerous in that it is likely to cause ‘some harm’

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Unlawful acts that have been successfully prosecuted

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  • Arson
  • Criminal damage
  • Burglary
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15
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Case in which criminal damage was a sufficient unlawful act

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Newbury and Jones 1976

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16
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Watson 1989

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Burglary can be a sufficient unlawful act

17
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What criminal act is insufficient of being an unlawful act for the purposes of unlawful act manslaughter?

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  • Supplying another person with drugs
  • If D didn’t administer the drugs, they did not commit the unlawful act
18
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Church 1965

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The unlawful act must be dangerous

19
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The unlawful act must be dangerous

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Church 1965

20
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What does ‘dangerous’ mean?

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Likely to result in ‘some harm’

21
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Likely to result in ‘some harm’

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Dangerous

22
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What must be established to determine whether the act was dangerous?

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A sober, reasonable person would recognise a risk of some physical harm to a person

23
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Burglary could be considered objectively dangerous as soon as V’s frail condition became apparent to the sober and reasonable man

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Bristow, Dunn and Delay 2014

24
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Bristow, Dunn and Delay 2014

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Burglary could be considered objectively dangerous as soon as V’s frail condition became apparent to the sober and reasonable man

25
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Dawson 1985

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Must be a risk of physical harm, not mental

26
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Must be a risk of physical harm, not mental

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Dawson 1985

27
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D does not have to foresee or intend what?

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  • the harm
  • they will be penalised for it because they should have foreseen it
28
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What must be applied when establishing whether the criminal act caused death?

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legal and factual tests of causation

29
Q

Williams 1992

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if the act was not aimed at V, this does not break the chain of causation as long as the person at whom they aimed behaved foreseeably

30
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If the act was not aimed at V, this does not break the chain of causation as long as the person at whom they aimed behaved foreseeably

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Williams 1992

31
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Mitchell 1983

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No need for direct contact, as long as V was killed as a ‘direct and immediate result of his act’

32
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No need for direct contact, as long as V was killed as a ‘direct and immediate result of his act’

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Mitchell 1983

33
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V breaks the chain of causation when they take drugs that D has prepared for them

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Kennedy 2007

34
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Kennedy 2007

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V breaks the chain of causation when they take drugs that D has prepared for them

35
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NO need to prove beyond reasonable doubt that…

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V would be alive but for D’s act, just that it was the operating and substantial cause of death

36
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Elements of unlawful act manslaughter

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  • unlawful criminal act
  • dangerous act
  • criminal act must cause death
  • MR of the criminal act
37
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The harm does not have to be what?

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Foreseen or intended

38
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Newbury v Jones 1976

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  • criminal damage is a sufficient unlawful act
  • harm does not have to be foreseen or intended

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