Causation
- Created by: Molly Byrne
- Created on: 05-03-15 20:32
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- Need to be a causal link between df actions and outcome
- Causation
- Factual and legal causation must be satisfied
- Factual causation
- 'But For' rule
- but for the dfs actions, would the harm have been caused?
- Legal causation
- Concerned with if the dfs actions were the operation and substantial cause
- R v Smith
- Break in the chain of causation can be caused by:
- Novus actus interveniens - R v White
- Thin skull rule - R v Hayward
- Medical intervention
- Naturally occurring intervention - R v Perkins
- Victims own actions - R v Blaue, R v Roberts
- Third party intervention
- Causation
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