Jury not entitled to find the necessary intention unless it feels sure that death or serious bodily harm was a virtual certainty....and the D appreciated such was the case.
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Card 7
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Although there is very little difference between a rule of evidence and one of law, foresight of a virtual certainty is evidence from which the jury may find intention
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when prosecuting offences against the person the prosecution must prove that D intended or that he actually foresaw that his act would cause harm.
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the House of Lords overruled the Caldwell decision on recklessness in criminal damage, reintroducing a subjective test, as had been applied pre-Caldwell in cases such as Stephenson (1979).
