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Actus Reus
Case law concerning actus reus
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Undergraduate 1
05/08/2013

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White
Definition
The "but for" test for determining factual causation.
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Pagett
Definition
Defendant's actions had to significantly contribute to the consequences.
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Cato
Definition
De minimus principle. Defendant's actions had to have more than a minimal role in the consequence.
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Smith
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The defendant's actions had to have been an operative and substantial cause of the consequences.
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Pittwood
Definition
Contractual duty to act.
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Stone and Dobinson
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Voluntary assumption of care.
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Gibbons and Proctor
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Duty of care arising from a special relationship.
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Airdale Trust
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Public duty of care.
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Miller
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Duty to avert danger created.
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Blaue
Definition
Thin skull rule.
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Cheshire
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Chain of causation will not be broken if consequences of a new intervening act were brought about by the defendant's original action.
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Roberts
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Chain of causation will not be broken by the victim's actions unless they were so "daft" that the reasonable person would not have undertaken them.
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Mitchell
Definition
Transferred malice.
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