Novus Actus Interveniens in UK Law
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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...... ... principles of foreseeability and novus actus interveniens in the crim-inal law. Will ... ...
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R v Kennedy Revisited
... ... ; Unlawful act manslaughter; Causation; Novus actus interveniens ; Complicity The decision of ... ...
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Causation and Assisting Drug-Abuse Injection
... ... conduct by the ‘ victim ’ acted as a novus actus interveniens ... The point that gives rise to ... ...
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An Australian Evaluation of Causation in Fright Cases
The tests for determining causation are in an unsatisfactory state in cases where the accused causes the victim to flee, whereby the victim suffers injury. Recently, the Australian High Court in Ro...... ... of the final step does not constitute a novus actus interveniens and the chain of ... ...
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Statutes
... ... may have provided, for example, a novus actus interveniens or been the contractor ... ...
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Manslaughter; Causation: Supply of Drugs
... ... , the problem of what appeared to be a novus actus interveniens in the chain of causation was ... ...
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Culpable Homicide and Drug Administration
... ... ’ in the injection process committed the actus reus , and could have no answers to, an offence ... applied orthodox principles on causation, novus actus interveniens , and voluntary behaviour by a ... ...
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Court of Appeal
... ... breaking the chain of causation (a novus ... as to its status as a novus actus ... its status as a novus actus interveniens ... ...
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Underwhelming Supervening Acts
... ... by the Supreme Court are reminiscent of a novus actus interveniens, which is peculiarbecause the ... ...
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Criminalising Bad Bankers
... ... col-lapse would present in terms of a novus actus interveniens submission.Mounting such a ... ...
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