What directions should be given to the jury when a defendant charged with causing death by dangerous driving in one count submits that he did not cause the death of a person, but that a driver in another vehicle, whose death the defendant is also said to have caused in another count, did? Lawyers have traditionally used the rubric ‘novus actus interveniens’ to describe the issue raised in this case. We shall use those words or translate them as new and intervening act or event.
Citations:
[2009] EWCA Crim 2666, [2010] RTR 28
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England and Wales
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Cited – A, Regina v CACD 17-Mar-2020
The defendant had stopped on the hard shoulder of the motorway at night, but displayed no lights. A truck, the driver having fallen asleep at the wheel, hit the car and a passenger died. The prosecutor now appealed accession to a submission of no . .
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Crime
Updated: 17 September 2022; Ref: scu.424443