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Unlawful act manslaughter and dangerousness

Giles Bayliss explains the dangerousness requirement

The article is relevant to OCR A-level Unit 1 (the legal system and criminal law); AQA A-level (criminal law and nature of law: law and society — fault, law and justice, law and morality); and WJEC A-level Papers 1–3.

Unlawful act manslaughter is the most widely prosecuted form of involuntary manslaughter. It arises where a defendant commits an unlawful and dangerous act resulting in the death of the victim. In such cases the defendant will not possess the mens rea for murder, but will have the lesser mens rea for the offence (the unlawful act) which caused the victim’s death.

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