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Criminal Liabilty - AS Law Unit 2
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- 1Burden of Proofbeyond reasonable doubt
- 2WHAT IS THE ACTUS REUS?usually a voluntary act (hill v baxter and state of affairs when not) sometimes a failure to act eg. omission
- 3Involuntary actsLarsonneur and Winzer v Chief constable of kent
- 4statutory dutyRTA S6 1988 - FAILURE TO GIVE A SEPCIMIN OF BREATH AT ROADSIDE
- 5Contractual dutypittwood
- 6duty due to relationshipgibbins and proctor
- 7duty taken on voluntarilystone v dobinson
- 8official position dutydytham
- 9duty due to d setting in motion a chain of eventsmiller
- 10Factual Causation'but for' paggett and white
- 11legal causationsmith - operating and substantial cause
de minimus - kimsey - 12Intervening actsnovus actus intervenus, 3rd party(medical), victims own act(roberts/williams), unforseeable event(Puma).
- 13Thin Skull ruletake your victim as you find them - blaue
- 14medical treatmentonly break if act is so poten and palpably wrong. grossly bad = not forseeable. cheshire, jordan and malcharek
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