... be unjust. When sentencing Judges can consider the circumstances of the offence but it has been suggested that it would be more appropriate and just to have different categories so that the level of wrongdoing of the defendant is clear and obvious to everyone. For some dangerous acts it seems obvious that death will result but in R v Mitchell this was not the case. Mitchell, the defendant, assaulted a man who then fell on to an elderly woman causing her death. It is reasonable to say that the death of the woman was not foreseeable however unfortunately for manslaughter it is sufficient that the act may foreseeably cause some harm. Mitchell was therefore given life imprisonment for an act that was in most people's opinion minor. It is however up to the court to decide to interpret the circumstances of the death. Also two apparently similar acts can be found ...

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