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Causation

The law relating to causation is popular with examiners and can often pose problems for students. Amin Ladha outlines the key points and cases

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This ‘Examination focus’ is relevant to AQA Law 02 and Law 03 (Criminal Law), OCR A2 Unit G153 and WJEC A2 Unit 3.

Rules relating to causation are applied to given situations in order to determine whether the defendant’s guilty act caused the required consequence. For example, did the victim’s stabbing by the defendant (D) cause the death of the victim (V)?

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