R v Cunningham
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r-v-cunningham-287-2514837
title:
R v Cunningham
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Regina v. Cunningham (1957) is an English Court of Appeal ruling that clarified that indirect, not reasonably foreseeable consequences to a totally distinct, reprehensible, even "wicked" activity would not be considered "malicious" where that is set out as the mens rea for a particular offence. The level of mens rea, by statute, specifically needed to accompany "administration", which it was common ground that negligent release would amount to, of noxious gases. The precedent value of the case h
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2023-01-15T22:51:09Z
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