Murder

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A level Law (Criminal Law (1B)) Mind Map on Murder, created by Josie Troop on 31/05/2022.
Josie Troop
Mind Map by Josie Troop, updated more than 1 year ago
Josie Troop
Created by Josie Troop almost 2 years ago
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Murder
  1. unlawful killing
    1. not in self defence or with legal permission (Re A)
    2. creature in being
      1. not a person on life support (Malcharek and Steel) or a foetus (ag's ref)
      2. malice aforethought
        1. must have direct (Vickers) or oblique (Woolin) intention to kill or cause serious harm
        2. within the queens peace
          1. must not be during war time (R v Page)
            1. killing a prisoner of war will amount to murder
            2. common law defintion
              1. Lord Coke in 1797 defined murder
                1. the unlawful killing of a creature in being within the queen's peace with malice aforethought
                2. legal (R v Kimsey) and factual (R v White) causation applies
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