"In Struggling to define the boundaries of Involuntary Manslaughter the courts have encountered considerable difficulties and the resulting model is not a credit to English Law." - Discuss whether this criticism is justified.

... "In Struggling to define the boundaries of Involuntary Manslaughter the courts have encountered considerable difficulties and the resulting model is not a credit to English Law." Discuss whether this criticism is justified. Involuntary manslaughter is the crime of killing another person, It uses the Actus Reus of Murder but the Mens Rea is absent therefore the defendant did not intent to cause GBH or kill. Involuntary Manslaughter applies to two areas of law, Unlawful act manslaughter or Constructive Manslaughter and Gross Negligence manslaughter. The act of involuntary manslaughter must be unlawful in the criminal sense, generally an omission will not do, as stated in he case of Kahn & Kahn (1998) where the Court of Appeal held that there was no separate category for manslaughter by omission unless the omission was a breach of a duty to act. The Unlawful act must be a crime as a pose to a civil wrong

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