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Criminal Law - AR
Actus Reus (Omissions, Factual/Legal causation)
Question | Answer |
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Pittwood | Contractual duty (level crossing operator fails to close gates) |
Dytham | Duty through official position (fails to stop people kicking someone to death) |
Instan | Duty taken on voluntarily (offers to look after gangrenous aunt) |
Gibbins and Proctor | Duty through relationship (starve child) |
Miller | Duty by creating dangerous situation (sets alight sofa) |
White | Not a factual cause of mothers death (heart attack not poison) |
Paggett | Factual case (uses pregnant woman as human shield) |
Smith | Poor medical treatment doesn't break chain of causation |
Jordan | Medical treatment 'palpably wrong' breaking chain of causation |
Roberts | Jumping out of car doesn't break chain (D made sexual advances to V) |
Williams | Jumping out of car breaks chain (asking for wallet) |
Blaue | Thin Skull rule - victims weakness doesn't break chain |