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Is murder a common law offence?
Question 2
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Who defined murder?
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Lord Coke
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Attorney-General
Question 3
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What are the different elements to the AR of murder?
Question 4
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What is the element of the MR of murder?
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What is an omission?
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A positive act
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A failure to act
Question 6
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What cases can you use for omissions?
Question 7
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A foetus in the womb consider 'in being'? (Attorney-General's Reference (No.3 of 1994) 1997)
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Doctors are not permitted to switch off life support machines of 'brain dead' patients without being liable for murder? (Malcherek and Steel 1981)
Question 9
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The AR of murder can be present when a prisoner of war is killed but not when an enemy of war is killed?
Question 10
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When must the Attorney-General give his consent for a prosecution of murder?
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If death occurs more than three years after the injury occurred
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Where a person has already been found guilty of an offence that was connected to the circumstances of the death
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Where a British citizen has been arrested for alleged murder outside of the UK
Question 11
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What is causation?
Question 12
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What are the different types of causation?
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Factual
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Legal
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Lawful
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Unlawful
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Factual causation - In White (1910) the D poisoned his mothers drink with the intention of killing her but the chain of causation was broken because her actual cause of death was a myocardial infarction.
Question 14
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Factual causation - In Pagett (1983) a police bullet killed the V who was being held as a human shield by the D. Who was responsible for the V's death?
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What case can be used for legal causation?
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Cato (1976)
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Kemp (1957)
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Sullivan (1984)
Question 16
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Does the case Blaue (1975) illustrate the principle of take your victim as you find him?
Question 17
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Which of the following cases had a break in the chain of causation?
Question 18
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Malice has to be present?
Question 19
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Aforethought does not need any previous planning or thinking about it before hand?
Question 20
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The MR of an intention to kill includes
Question 21
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Moloney (1985), Hancock and Shankland (1986), Nedrick (1986) and Woolling (1998) are all case examples of what?