Law Commission consultation on homicide offences

We invite consultees’ views on the need and justifications for a bespoke offence to criminalise the supply of unlawful drugs resulting in the death of a person.

We invite consultees’ views on the need and justifications for a bespoke offence in cases in which there has been a culpable failure to seek medical assistance or intervention and death results.

We provisionally conclude that the specific homicide offences (criminal offences in which death is a distinct element that must be proved by the prosecution, but which fall outside the general homicide offences) should not be incorporated into the three-tier homicide structure.

Do consultees agree?

We invite consultees’ views on whether the substantive elements of any of the specific homicide offences require reform.