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R v Nedrick

[1986] 1 WLR 1025; [1986] 3 All ER 1; (1986) 83 Cr App R 267 (CA)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division), England and Wales
Year1986
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

On a charge of murder, a jury may infer intention only where death or serious bodily harm was a virtual certainty of the defendant's act and the defendant appreciated that to be the case.

Area of Law

c

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