Chain of Causation in UK Law
- Medical Treatment and the Chain of Causation
- Breaking the Chain of Causation: Reasonable Foreseeability and the ‘Exact Form’ of a Subsequent Act: R v A [2020] EWCA Crim 407; [2020] 1 WLR 2320
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Kennedy and Unlawful Act Manslaughter: An Unorthodox Application of the Doctrine of Causation
The decision of the House of Lords in R v Kennedy (No. 2)1 was welcomed by many academics as a return to the traditional application of causation. The victim in Kennedy was found to have broken the...... ... 2)1waswelcomed by many academics as a return to the traditional application ofcausation. The victim in Kennedy was found to have broken the chain ofcausation between himself and his drug supplier when he self-injectedwith an already prepared syringe and produced his own death. However,on a ... ...
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The migration–terrorism nexus: An analysis of German and Italian press coverage of the ‘refugee crisis’
Over the last few years, terrorist attacks in European cities, together with the so-called ‘refugee crisis’, have (re)ignited a debate on whether there is an association between the two issues. Dra...... ... of four main terror attacks in Europe shows the predominance of a chain of causation linking terrorism to new migrants and refugees. Given the ... ...
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Criminal redress in cases of environmental victimization: a defence1
In recent years, growing concern has been voiced in the environmental justice literature regarding the ability of criminal justice mechanisms to adequately address environmental harms, especially w...... ... to the particu lar features of enviro nmental cases, where th e chain of causation betwee n wrongful actions /omissions and en vironmentally ha ... ...
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Court of Appeal
... ... journals.sagepub.com/home/clj ... Voluntary Acts and the Chain" of Causationin Homicide Cases: The Need for‘Free and Unfettered\xC2" ... causation ... ...
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The Twice-Killed Corpse—A Causation Issue
... ... of being the legal cause of death" and the court should have addressed the case in terms of whether there was a break in the chain of causation between the death and the blow accompanied by mens rea. Addressing the causation issue If the contemporaneity cases ... ...
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Unlawful Act Manslaughter and Causation
... ... the issue that arose in Dias it is important to consider wider principles that determine the conduct of a third party which breaks the chain of causation. If D punches P in the face rendering him unconscious and then leaves P lying in the street, it is quite likely that a third party ... ...
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Criminal Causation and the Careless Doctor
... ... The only situation in which the chain of causation could be broken and D absolved would be if the medical treatment was ‘reckles~,’~ ie if the doctors had ... ...
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Manslaughter; Causation: Supply of Drugs
... ... In applying this approach, the problem of what appeared to be a novus actus interveniens in the chain of causation was avoided. In other words, it would appear that the Court of Appeal in Kennedy (No. 2) was suggesting that the appellant and the ... ...
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