The court said that it was necessary for the law to come to a compromise with the doctrine of causation; expediency and good sense dictated that for practical purposes a line had to be drawn somewhere and, in doing so, the court was to be guided by the practical experience of the reasonable man rather than by the theoretical speculations of the philosopher.
Lord Justice-Clerk Thomson
1961 SC 44
Scotland
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Cited – Kane v HM Advocate; MacAngus v HM Advocate HCJ 27-Jan-2009
The defendants appealed against convictions for culpable homicide. In each case they had supplied a drug to the victim who had then self-administered the drug and died as a consequence.
Held: The appeals failed. The court considered whether . .
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Updated: 16 August 2021; Ref: scu.332842