POLS 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Supreme Court Act, Provincial Judges Reference, Marc Nadon
4 Oct 2016
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Chapter one: an introduction to politics, law and the judicial process: Brenda drummond was charged with attempted murder when her son was born and had developed a severe infection and she revealed she had inserted a pellet gun into her vagina and fired it. > she was very depressed and inattentive and was unaware she was pregnant. S. 223(1) of criminal code states: a child becomes a human being within the meaning to this act when it has completely proceeded, in a living state, from the body of its mother. > according to s. 223(2) a person is guilty of homicide if a child dies after birth from injuries inflicted by that person before birth. In the 1980s, two bc midwives were charged with criminal negligence causing the death of a child after the baby they were delivering died in the birth canal.
