LLB 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Crimes Act 1900, Voluntary Manslaughter, Criminal Negligence
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Lecture 4 : manslaughter & assault causing death. The notion of manslaughter by the intentional infliction of some harm carries with it the consequence that a person may be convicted of manslaughter for an act which was neither intended nor likely to cause death. Legislative framework: ss18 and 24: e(cid:373)ember words of the crimes act 1900: (cid:862)s18 murder and manslaughter defined(1)(a) Murder shall be taken to have been committed where (b) every other punishable homicide shall be taken to be manslaughter. s24 manslaughter-punishment whosoever commits the crime of manslaughter shall be liable to imprisonment for 25 years. (cid:863) 3. reckless indifference to human life; and (cid:1008). (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:374)st(cid:396)u(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e (cid:373)u(cid:396)de(cid:396)(cid:863): m : i(cid:374)te(cid:374)t; (cid:396)ecklessness (foresee probability of death) Same mr as murder but defense/or excuse such as: provocation excessive self defence infanticide: disti(cid:374)guished f(cid:396)o(cid:373) i(cid:374)(cid:448)olu(cid:374)ta(cid:396)(cid:455) (cid:373)a(cid:374)slaughte(cid:396) (cid:449)he(cid:396)e d does (cid:374)ot i(cid:374)te(cid:374)d to kill.
