CRM 2300 Lecture 5: Causation in Criminal Law
5 Oct 2016
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Consequences: an element of actus reus: more than one accused. Concept of causation comes into play: intervening factors. Other events occur from the time of conduct to the time of consequences. Chain of causation is being intervened by other conditions rather than the conduct. Having haemophilia and not administering your shot of. Vitamin k. you are injured and begin internal bleeding and eventually die. The person who injures you can state that they did not know of your medical state. Link between conduct and consequences is severed: murder cases. To establish the causal link between the conduct and the consequences. Trotta case (2004: assaulted and killed his 8 month old son. Could not pinpoint the cause of death and the doctor who performed the autopsy concluded that the baby died from. Nette case (2001: the supreme court of canada ruled that:
