Unlawful Act Manslaughter

Question 1

Lowe

Answer 1

Must be committed by an Act not omission (neglected baby was not taken to the doctor)

Question 2

Lamb

Answer 2

Must be Unlawful (Two boy believed gun was empty one pointed at the other)

Question 3

Church

Answer 3

A sober an reasonable person would have realised it would cause some harm (D threw woman in river thinking she was dead, and she drowned)

Question 4

Dawson

Answer 4

Church plus i.e. SOME PHYSICAL HARM (D tried to rob petrol station and caused man to have heart attack)

Question 5

Kennedy

Answer 5

Intervening act breaks chain of causation (D supplied V with drugs but V self injected)

Question 6

Shohid

Answer 6

Not necessary to prove D was only cause but AN OPERATING AND SUBSTANTIAL CAUSE (D’s attacked V and friend onto track, V killed by train)

Question 7

Newbury and Jones

Answer 7

D must have MR for unlawful act (Two boys pushed paving stone onto railway track killing train conductor)