Gross Negligence Manslaughter
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- Created on: 21-05-18 09:16
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- Gross Negligence Manslaughter
- Must breach duty of care
- Holloway - did D's actions fall below the standard of the reasonable man?
- Death must be foreseeable
- Misra - a reasonable person must foresee the risk of death
- Must be a duty of care
- Pittwood - contractual duty
- Dythem - official position
- Miller; Evans - setting in motion a series of events
- Stone & Dobinson - duty taken on voluntarily
- Gibbins & Proctor - special relationship
- Wacker - two people committing a crime together owe each other a duty
- Breach must be gross
- Bateman - 'it goes beyond a matter of mere compensation between two parties and showed such a disregard for the life and safety of others as to amount to a crime'
- Breach must cause the death
- Must breach duty of care
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