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All unlawful killings which are not murder are manslaughter
A person is guilty of manslaughter where he unlawfully kills any person but is not guilty of murder due to the partial defences of diminished responsibility, sudden loss of self control (which replaces provocation). A person is also guilty of manslaughter where he kills any person by an unlawful act (ie an act that constitutes a criminal offence in its own right), or by gross negligence. There are related offences of: causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable adult; infanticide; child destruction; abortion; and corporate manslaughter. There are special offences of homicide involving motor vehicles; eg causing death by dangerous driving.
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Pre Inquest Review (PIR) hearings—checklist It has become commonplace to hold a pre inquest review hearing (PIR) or several if deemed necessary to ensure the case is managed efficiently and to resolve an evidential issues which may occur. Rule 6 of The Coroners (Inquests) Rules 2013 (CIR 2013) gives the coroner statutory authority to hold a PIR 'at any time during the course of an investigation'. If the coroner does not take the initiative to arrange one, those representing the interested persons (IPs) should call for a PIR to be listed. The Chief Coroner’s guidance states that PIRs should be held in complex investigations. The function of a PIR is comparable to a Case Management Conference in civil litigation or a Plea and Trial Preparation Hearing in the Crown Court. For information on preparing for an inquest, see Practice Note: How to prepare for an inquest. PIRs should be held in public and details of the PIR should be published in advance on the coroner/local authority website to...
Fees for intervention—checklist When do fees for intervention apply? When Health and Safety Executive (HSE) visits a business and identifies a material breach of the law, the business will have to pay a fee. The fee is currently set at £183 per hour. Fees for intervention (FFI) only applies to work carried out by HSE’s inspectors so, if a business is inspected for health and safety by another regulator such as local authority environmental health officers, it will not apply. FFI applies to all businesses and organisations inspected by HSE, except for: • self-employed people who don’t put people at risk by their work • those who are already paying fees to HSE for the work through other arrangements • those who deliberately work with certain biological agents Individuals working as employees and those who have committed offences under sections 36 or 37 Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 will not be charged FFI. A material breach is where a business has broken a health and safety law...
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Involuntary manslaughter—introductionManslaughter can be classified as either voluntary or involuntary. Voluntary manslaughter consists of those killings which would be murder (because the accused has the relevant mental element—hence the label voluntary manslaughter) but which are reduced to manslaughter because of one of the three special defences. Involuntary manslaughter refers to those types of manslaughter which can be charged in their own right and where the accused lacks the mental element for murder ie the intention to kill or cause grievous bodily harm (GBH), although equally they can result from an indictment for murder where the prosecution fail to prove the mental element. See: R v Taylor (1834) 2 Lew CC 215 (not reported by ÑÇÖÞÉ«ÇéÍø®). For further information on voluntary manslaughter and murder, see Practice Notes: Voluntary manslaughter and Murder.There are two classes of involuntary manslaughter where a defendant:•kills another by an unlawful act which was likely to cause bodily harm (known as either unlawful act manslaughter or constructive manslaughter), or•kills another by gross negligence (manslaughter by gross negligence)Unlawful act manslaughterIn order to prove manslaughter by...
Voluntary manslaughterVoluntary manslaughter consists of those killings which would be murder (because the accused has the relevant mental element for murder) but which are reduced to manslaughter because of one of the three special defences (loss of control, diminished responsibility or suicide pact). Voluntary manslaughter is not an offence a defendant can be indicted for, but is a verdict which can result from an initial indictment for murder. The actual verdict will simply be 'manslaughter' without the label of 'voluntary'. The special defences were amended by the sections 52–57 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (CJA 2009).Manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibilityThe special defence of diminished responsibility was amended by CJA 2009, s 52 which changed the definition of the partial defence of diminished responsibility and applies to defendants charged with murder where the acts or omissions resulting in the death of the victim took place on or after 4 October 2010. For offences committed before this date the old law will still apply. Section 2 of the Homicide...
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Is there a prescribed form for statements of truth for an expert's report in a coroner's inquest? The calling of witnesses, including expert witnesses, in an inquest is within the coroner’s discretion. The power to require evidence to be given in writing or in person is contained in Schedule 5 to the Coroners and Justice Act 2009. For further information see Practice Note: Powers of the coroner. The duty on the coroner is to call sufficient witnesses to make sure that a proper enquiry is undertaken in order to determine cause of death. A coroner's discretion whether to call expert evidence is wide (see Mack (r on the application of) v HM Coroner for Birmingham and Solihull (2011) and the Chief Coroner's Law Sheet No 5). While independent expert evidence is not always required, it can be necessary in order to conduct such an enquiry. If expert evidence is thought necessary then a report will need to be prepared, and the coroner will often organise their own expert evidence,...
Under what circumstances can a section 172 Road Traffic Act 1988 notice be served? Can such a notice be served upon someone who is being investigated for an offence which isn't a road traffic offence? The duty to give information as to the identity of a driver in certain circumstances arises in relation to: • any offence created by sections 1–171 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (RTA 1988) except for offences under RTA 1988, Pt V or an offence under RTA 1988 ss 13, 16, 51(2), 61(4), 67(9), 68(4), 96 or 120 and to an offence under RTA 1988, s 178 • any offence under sections 25–27 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 • any offence against any other enactment relating to the use of vehicles on roads, and • to manslaughter, or in Scotland culpable homicide, by the driver of a motor vehicle For further guidance, see Practice Note: Failing to give information as to the identity of driver which
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