Actus Reus
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- Created on: 17-04-16 21:49
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- Actus Reus
- The guilty act
- Voluntary Act
- A deliberate act from the defendant
- A 'conscious exercise of will'
- Involuntary Act
- Not being in control of ones body
- Hill V Baxter
- State of Affairs Crimes
- Larsonneur
- Not being in control of ones body
- Omissions
- Failure to do something
- Liable if you have a duty to act
- Statutory/Contractual Agreement
- R V Dytham
- Voluntarily agreeing to look after another
- R V Stone and Dobbinson
- Creating a dangerous situation
- R V Miller
- Continuing Act
- Fagan V MPC
- Doctor's duties
- Airedale NHS Trust V Bland
- Causation
- Factual Causation
- Defendant must've caused the harm
- R V White
- Proven with the 'but for' test
- R V Pagett
- 'but for the defendants acts, the offence wouldn't have occurred'
- Defendant must've caused the harm
- Legal Causation
- Defendants acts were a significant contribution
- Proven by the chain of causation
- R V Jordan
- R V Smith tried to claim that medical acts break the chain of causation
- R V Jordan
- Reasonably foreseeable act
- R V Pagett
- Escape cases
- R V Dear
- Intervening acts are so daft they couldn't be foreseen
- R V Roberts
- Thin skull rule
- Refuse medical treatment
- R V Holland
- Physiological conditions
- R V Haywood
- Religious beliefs
- R V Blaue
- Take your victim as you find them
- Pre existing weakness of the victim
- Refuse medical treatment
- Factual Causation
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