unlawful act
Cards (11)
- a person commits an unlawful dangerous act that causes victims death
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- U = Unlawful act must be a criminal offence (Lamb)
- U = not a civil wrong (Franklin)
- U = act not omission (Lowe)
- U = can be aimed at property (Goodfellow)
- D = must be Dangerous under objective test - would a reasonable and sober person see risk of some harm, albeit not serious harm (Church)
- D = risk of harm must be physical (Dawson)
- C = d's act must Cause victims death
- self injection breaks chain (Dalby)
- M = d must have Mens rea for unlawful act but does not need to foresee risk of harm (Newbury and Jones)