Murder
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- Created on: 24-11-21 09:54
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- Murder
- Mens Rea
- Malice Aforethought,intention to kill or cause serious harm
- Express Malice Aforethought through direct intention. (main aim to kill)
- Express Malice Aforethought through oblique intention (virtually certain actions would kill)
- Implied Malice Aforethought through direct intention (main aim to cause GBH)
- Implied Malice Aforethought through oblique intention (virtually certain actions would cause GBH)
- Malice Aforethought,intention to kill or cause serious harm
- Actus reus
- Unlawfully killing under the Queen's Peace with malice aforethought.
- -Sir Edward Coke
- Unlawfully killing under the Queen's Peace with malice aforethought.
- Causation
- Causation in fact (Pagett)
- Causation in law (Jordan)
- Chain is broken
- Medical treatment
- Broken by victims own actions (Roberts)
- Broken by a third party actions
- Sentence
- Guilty/Not Guilty
- If guilty, can be imprisoned for up to life imprisonment
- Guilty/Not Guilty
- Specific Defences
- Voluntary Manslaughter
- Loss of Control (s.54 Coroners & Justice Act 2009)
- Diminished responsibility (s.2(1)Homicide Act 1957 amended by Coroners & Justice Act 2009)
- Voluntary Manslaughter
- Mens Rea
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