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13 Cards in this Set
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Voluntary nature of act is Reusw |
Hill v Baxter bees in a car and loosing control |
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Involuntariness def convicted even though he didn’t act voluntarily |
R v Larsonneur woman told to leave Uk she went Ireland and they sent her back to uk involuntarily still liable |
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A contractual duty omission |
R v pittwood cross keeper failed to shut gates person killed by a train |
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A duty cuz of relationship |
Gibbons v proctor starved a child to death |
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Duty undertaken voluntarily |
R v stone and dobinson elderly sister left malnutritioned |
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A duty through ones official position |
R v dytham fight between ppl bystander was a police officer but failed to do something |
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Def set off in motion a chain of events |
R v miller leaving a cigarette causing a mattress to go on fire and then slept next door leaving fire |
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Factual causation in actua Reus |
R v pagett def took hold of prefect woman who was preg and police shot her accident cuz def used her as a shield |
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Legal causation |
R v Kimsey high speed chase lose control and crash did not legall cause accident |
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Thin skull rule Take your v as you find them |
R v blaue women stabbed and needed blood transfusion she was Jehovah’s Witness def guilty |
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Medical treatment intervening acts |
R v smith - soldier stabbed case R v Cheshire - def shot v complications caused cuz of doc R v jordon - doc caused death didn’t know allergies R v malcherek - taking woman of life support |
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Victims own act |
R v Roberts women out of car |
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Unreasonable reaction |
R v Williams and Davis jumped out of car was a hitch hiker |
