Court of Appeal: Voluntary Acts and the Chain of Causation in Homicide Cases: The Need for ‘Free and Unfettered Volition’ R v Wallace [2018] EWCA Crim 690

Tony Storey

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Court of Appeal: Voluntary Acts and the Chain of Causation in Homicide Cases: The Need for ‘Free and Unfettered Volition’ R v Wallace [2018] EWCA Crim 690

Tony Storey

Law Department

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Abstract

This case note analyses the Court of Appeal's judgment in R v Wallace [2018] EWCA Crim 690, on the question whether euthanasia can break the chain of causation in a homicide prosecution.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	292-295
Number of pages	4
Journal	The Journal of Criminal Law
Volume	82
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0022018318792773
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2018

Keywords

murder
causation
euthanasia
“voluntary” acts
novus actus interveniens

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