R v Dear
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R v. Dear [1996] Crim LR 595 is an English criminal law case, dealing with homicide and causation. The court ruled that even if a victim aggravates his wounds sufficiently to cause otherwise avoidable death, the chain of causation is not broken.
The defendant had stabbed the victim, but the victim reopened the wounds after receiving treatment in order to commit suicide, and died.
The court decided that it was not necessary to apply the but for test (but for the defendant stabbing the victim, the victim would not have been able to reopen the wounds), since the actions of the defendant were sufficient to have killed the victim on their own.
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