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  1. Identify the unlawful act

Lamb - the act must be unlawful. Lowe - Must be an act not an omission.

Andrews v DPP

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  1. Dangerous - objective

Church - Would the reasonable sober person foresee some harm.

Mitchell - harm does not need aimed at actual victim.

Dawson - Robbery counts if V is frail.

Watson - Know v was vulnerable?

Goodfellow - harm can be aimed at property.

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  1. Prove it causes death

Factual causation - white

Legal - Corion Augustine (direct and substantial)

Shohid - must be a cause but not the only cause.

DPP v Newberry

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Breaks in chain

V's own acts - Roberts (if the V's actions are reasonably foreseeable they don't break the chain.

Williams (if the V's actions are reasonably foreseeable, they do break the chain) its up for the jury decide this.

Mitchell-Transferred malice

Jordan - Palpably wrong medical treatment

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Mens rea of unlawful act

D must have MR for the unlawful act, not for death - Newbury and jones

Cunningham - the test for recklessness (was there a risk to the act did the defendant know?)