Question

PRINCIPLE The right of private defence entitles one to do harm to a proportional extent provided it is done in good faith, it is proportional and is inflicted only to the extent is necessary to stop a person from committing harm against oneself.

FACTS A doctor with the intention of saving a terminal patient's life decides to administer an experimental drug to the patient without informing the patient or taking consent from the patient's relatives leading to the patient's death.

Options

• The act shall not constitute an offence as there was no criminal intention.

• The act shall not constitute an offence as there was no knowledge

• Both (a) and (b)

• Neither (a) nor (b)

Answer 1

Neither (a) nor (b)