chain of causation

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What is chain of causation

There's a direct link between the action and consequence

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What are things that break the chain called

Intervening acts

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Medical Intervention

Medical intervention doesn't break the chain of causation unless its extraordinary and unusual or palpably wrong

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What does medical intervention need to be

separate from he original act so bad that it creates its own offence

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What are the cases for medical intervention

R V Cheshire and r V Jordan

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R v Cheshire

D stabbed v and v had to have emergency surgery which went wrong and the v died during surgery

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