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In order to advise Aidan on his criminal liability, it is necessary to look into the law of unlawful homicide and in particular, involuntary manslaughter.
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CRIMINAL LAW COURSEWORK MO7911 NAME: JACQUELINE YEE-BING, LEE STUDENT NUMBER: 01228801 NUMBER OF WORDS: 1,844 In order to advise Aidan on his criminal liability, it is necessary to look into the law of unlawful homicide and in particular, involuntary manslaughter. It is a general principle of criminal law that a person may not be convicted of a crime unless it can be proved beyond reasonable doubt that he has caused a certain event, or that responsibility is to be attributed to him for the existence of a certain state of affairs which is forbidden by criminal law, actus reus; and that he had a defined state of mind in relation to the causing of the event or the existence of the state of affairs, mens rea. Murder is defined as the 'killing of a human being with malice aforethought', which is the intention to kill (express malice) or cause serious bodily harm (implied malice)1 and it...
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