Unlawful Manslaughter

Question 1

(Lowe)

Answer 1

Positive act not omission

Question 2

(Lamb)

Answer 2

Unlawful act must be a crime

Question 3

(Goodfellow)

Answer 3

Property crime

Question 4

(Larkin)

Answer 4

Any crime can form basis

Question 5

(Mitchell)

Answer 5

Does not need to be aimed at V

Question 6

Dangerous: (Church)

Answer 6

“if the sober and reasonable man would recognise that Ds act subjects another to the risk of some harm”

Question 7

(Dawson)

Answer 7

This can be shocked but not just fear or upset

Question 8

(Watson)

Answer 8

Burglary may be dangerous if apparent to the reasonable man that D is old and frail

Question 9

(JM&SM)

Answer 9

D does not need to realise the risk of harm or specific type of harm

Question 10

Causation

Answer 10

Factual
Legal: (Corion-Auguiste)

Question 11

(Shohid)

Answer 11

It needs not be the sole cause of death

Question 12

(Cato)

Answer 12

If D injects V with drugs and causes death they are liable

Question 13

(Kennedy)

Answer 13

V voluntarily injects themselves so V has broken chain of causation

Question 14

(AG’s Ref 4)

Answer 14

Series of unlawful acts, no need to establish actual cause

Question 15

(Newbury and Jones)

Answer 15

D just have Mr for unlawful act. Need not know if unlawful or dangerous- dangerous test objective
Does not require Mr for death