Questão 1
Questão
Is murder a common law offence?
Questão 2
Questão
Who defined murder?
Responda
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Lord Coke
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Attorney-General
Questão 3
Questão
What are the different elements to the AR of murder?
Questão 4
Questão
What is the element of the MR of murder?
Questão 5
Questão
What is an omission?
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A positive act
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A failure to act
Questão 6
Questão
What cases can you use for omissions?
Questão 7
Questão
A foetus in the womb consider 'in being'? (Attorney-General's Reference (No.3 of 1994) 1997)
Questão 8
Questão
Doctors are not permitted to switch off life support machines of 'brain dead' patients without being liable for murder? (Malcherek and Steel 1981)
Questão 9
Questão
The AR of murder can be present when a prisoner of war is killed but not when an enemy of war is killed?
Questão 10
Questão
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
Questão 11
Questão
What is causation?
Questão 12
Questão
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
Questão 13
Questão
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.
Questão 14
Questão
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?
Questão 15
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What case can be used for legal causation?
Responda
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Cato (1976)
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Kemp (1957)
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Sullivan (1984)
Questão 16
Questão
Does the case Blaue (1975) illustrate the principle of take your victim as you find him?
Questão 17
Questão
Which of the following cases had a break in the chain of causation?
Questão 18
Questão
Malice has to be present?
Questão 19
Questão
Aforethought does not need any previous planning or thinking about it before hand?
Questão 20
Questão
The MR of an intention to kill includes
Questão 21
Questão
Moloney (1985), Hancock and Shankland (1986), Nedrick (1986) and Woolling (1998) are all case examples of what?