If You Were Tasked With...

[agchristie]

...achieving a higher criminal conviction rate by reducing the threshold to secure a 'guilty' verdict,what phrase wud u replace 'beyond reasonable doubt' with?

[Peter Pedant]

well to succed in negligence you need on the balance of proabilities
however to succeed in a criminal conviction you need gross negligience beyond reasonable doubt

and so it seems sensible to look at a case where you succed at one ( civil ) and not the other

this week - r v Broughton

https://www.2harecourt.com/training-and-knowledge/r-v-broughton-clarifying-causation-in-gross-negligence-manslaughter/

bit technical compared to what has gone above
but what the hell - this is AB !

[agchristie]

PP,quite a well publicised case that one.

All v interesting this law business aint it! ;-)

[Peter Pedant]

is anyone reading this? recent cases X is quite a good google topic

supreme court have recent cases
https://www.supremecourt.uk/decided-cases/

but there is an awful lot of clag

and of course Bailii
https://www.bailii.org/recent-decisions.html

[Peter Pedant]

hi ag
are you the one with covid?
anyway - reported the times
balance of probability for decisions of the coroners court
including murder and manslaughter
must be appeal or supreme court

[Peter Pedant]

and it is here
https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2019-0137.html