actus reus

Cards (15)

  • actus reus - guilty act
  • causation - act must be the cause of the harm
  • pagett - but for test
  • 2 stage test - factual causation - legal causation
  • factual causation - factually harm wouldn't have happened if not d's actions
  • factual - white
  • legal causation - must be the legal cause
  • legal - kimsey
  • no intervening acts can break the chain of causation
  • act of god - bush v commonwealth of kentucky
  • victim intervention - kennedy
  • foreseeable victim intervention - roberts
  • must take v as they find them - blaue
  • third party intervention - jordan
  • palbably wrong medical treatment - jordan