Criminal law - murder And Causation

Question 1

R v Janjua and Chaudhary

Answer 1

intent to cause ‘really’ serious harm

Question 2

R v Clegg

Answer 2

AR for murder - unlawful killing of a reasonable creature under the kings peace

Question 3

R v Nedrick

Answer 3

MR for murder

Question 4

R v Woollin

Answer 4

MR for murder oblique intent

Question 5

R v Mohan

Answer 5

Direct intent - it was the defendants decision to bring about the prohibited consequence

Question 6

R v Malcherek and steel

Answer 6

‘brain stem’ is the current medical test for death

Question 7

R v Inglis

Answer 7

A vegetative state (disabled life) is still a life

Question 8

AG Ref No3 of 1994

Answer 8

It can still be murder or manslaughter if a child is born alive but later dies due to the act

Question 9

R v Latimer

Answer 9

Transferred malice outside of murder - The MR can move from the intended victim to the real victim

Question 10

R v smith

Answer 10

novus actus interveniuns

Question 11

R v Kimsey

Answer 11

legal causation - de minimus principle

Question 12

R v Pagett

Answer 12

Factual causation - ‘but for’ test

Question 13

R v Bleau

Answer 13

Thin skull rule

Question 14

R v Cheshire

Answer 14

Medical negligence rarely leads to novus actus interveniuns

Question 15

Fagan v Mpc

Answer 15

Principle of correspondence can be continuing act

Question 16

R v gnango

Answer 16

Defines or establishes transferred malice