Homicide

Auckland Area Health Board v AG

“ventilating a corpse” if only displaying outward signs of life but no actual living, can be described as living dead despite brain stem function

Harvard Brain Committee

Brain-stem death

Murray Wright Ltd

legal persons cannot be charged with homicide

Year and a day rule

Repealed 12 March 2019

R v Myatt

Unlawful act not confined to crime

R v Fleeting

Unlawful act must be inherently dangerous: reasonably known to have risk of serious harm- displaced by Lee

R v Lee

Unlawful act must be more than trivial harm

R v Gedson

Dangerous assessed objectively, knowledge confined to facts

R v Pira

167(b)- means to cause bodily injury, knows likely to cause death

R v Cho

167 d - Unlawful object, does act in pursuit of object, knows act likely to cause death

Shadrock v R

Offence must be crime, act likely to and actually causing death must be distinct but done in commission of crime, during or sufficiently proximate? Jury
Not enough for legal elements of crime to be complete, once left scene of crime seperate

R v P

Child killed does not need to be biological child (e.g foster)