Citation

Jones TH. Legal Stud. 2006; 26(2): 139-154.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Society of Legal Scholars, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1748-121X.2006.00014.x

PMID

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Abstract

This paper examines the significance of the issue of causation where a death results from the supply of an illegal drug. The characterisation of the drug user's conduct by means of a principle of voluntary intervention, as favoured in English and Welsh law, is questioned. The customary academic reliance upon the work of Hart and Honoré is doubted. The possibility of a new statutory offence of causing death by the supply of a controlled drug is considered.

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