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Manslaughter: s18(1)(b) - Coggle Diagram

- - - - e.g., Parent/child relationships
  - - - reasonable person in the position of D: (Nydam)
      - RP may have D's knowledge of the circumstances (Lavender)
      - Same age and experince as D, but ordinary fortitude and strength of mind of RP (Tr J in Lavender
      - RP does not have D's idiosyncrasies or his ephemeral emotional of mental state (Lush J in Wills)
      - They are a pesron 'who judges with the unclouded reasoning power of a healthy and reasonable mind' (Fullager J in Wills)
      - the opinion of D as to the safety of their acts is irrelevant (Lavender)
      - Ordinary fortitude and strength or mind of a reasonable person (see Stone and Dobinson [1977] 1 QB 354)
  - - - such a great falling short of the standard of care which a reaonable man would have excercised and which involved such a hgh risk that death or GBH would follow that the doing of the act merited criminal punishmnet' (Nydam)
      - "wickedly negligent': (Lavender)
      - consent of the V is not a defence but may be a factor to be cnsidered re gross neg: R v Cato