A Question of

Murder!!!

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Coke

Defined murder

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Pittwood

Authority for the fact you can commit the actus reus of murder by omission

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Airedale v Bland

Authority for brain stem death = death

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White

Authority for factual causation – ‘but for’ test

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Saunders

Confirms the mens rea for murder is intent to kill or cause serious harm

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Woollin

Gives us the test for oblique intent

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Cheshire

Authority for legal causation must be the substantive and operating cause

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Pagett

Legal Causation

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Stone and Dobinson

Commission of actus reus by omission

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Roberts

Victim trying to escape does not break the chain of causation

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What is the actus reus of murder?

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The unlawful killing of a person in being under the Queen’s peace

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What is the mens rea of murder?

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Intent to kill or cause serious harm