This chapter deals with further homicide and related offences. It discusses offences ancillary to murder, solicitation and threats to kill, the offence of concealment of birth, complicity in suicide, mercy killing and suicide pacts as well as the Suicide Act 1961. The chapter also covers offences of infanticide, child destruction and abortion. Finally, it then moves on to provide an overview of the offences under the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Acts 2004 and 2012 of causing or allowing a child or vulnerable adult to be killed or caused serious injury. The chapter examines the recent line of case law from the House of Lords and the Supreme Court considering whether the absolute prohibition on assisted suicide violates rights guaranteed in the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Essential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in Re A (Children)(Conjoined Twins) [2001] 2 WLR 480, Court of Appeal. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.
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Essential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R v Adomako [1995] AC 171, House of Lords. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.
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Essential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R v Dowds [2012] EWCA 2576, Court of Appeal. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.
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Essential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in Re A (Children)(Conjoined Twins) [2001] 2 WLR 480, Court of Appeal. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.
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Essential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R v Adomako [1995] AC 171, House of Lords. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.
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Essential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R v Dowds [2012] EWCA 2576, Court of Appeal. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.
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Essential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in Re A (Children)(Conjoined Twins) [2001] 2 WLR 480, Court of Appeal. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.
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Essential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R v Dowds [2012] EWCA 2576, Court of Appeal. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.
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Essential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R v Adomako [1995] AC 171, House of Lords. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.
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Essential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in Attorney-General’s Reference (No. 3 of 1994) [1998] AC 245, House of Lords. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.
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Essential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R v Kennedy [2008] 1 AC 269, House of Lords. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.
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Essential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in Attorney-General’s Reference (No. 3 of 1994) [1998] AC 245, House of Lords. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.
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Essential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R v Kennedy [2008] 1 AC 269, House of Lords. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.
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Essential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in Attorney-General’s Reference (No. 3 of 1994) [1998] AC 245, House of Lords. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.
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Essential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R v Kennedy [2008] 1 AC 269, House of Lords. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.
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Essential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R v Evans (Gemma) [2009] EWCA Crim 650, Court of Appeal. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.
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Essential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R v Stone and Dobinson [1977] 1 QB 354, Court of Appeal. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.
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Essential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R v Clinton [2012] EWCA Crim 2, Court of Appeal. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.
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Essential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R v Blaue [1975] 1 WLR 1411, Court of Appeal. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.
