Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

109.   Provisions as to causing event to apply

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    (1)   Subject to the provisions of this section, the provisions of Part 3 of Chapter One of this Code with respect to causing an event shall apply to the provisions of sections 97 to 108 and sections 110 to 113.

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    (2)   A person shall not be deemed to have caused harm to another person by omitting to supply him or her with the necessaries of health and life, unless it is proved against him or her that the other person, by reason of his or her age or physical or mental state, or by reason of control by the accused person, could not by reasonable effort have avoided the harm.

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    (3)   A disease or disorder which a person suffers as the inward effect of his or her grief, terror, or other emotion shall not be deemed to be harm caused by another person, although such grief, terror or emotion has been caused by the other person, whether with intent to cause harm or otherwise.

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    (4)   Harm which a person suffers by execution of a sentence of a Court in consequence of a prosecution instituted, or procured or of evidence given or procured to be given, by another person, whether or not in good faith, shall not be deemed to have been caused by that other person.

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    (5)   Except as otherwise expressly provided in this section, a person shall not—

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      (a)     be relieved of liability to punishment for causing harm to another person;

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      (b)     be acquitted of having caused harm to another person,

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    on the ground that the other person, by his or her own trespass, negligence, act, or omission, contributed to the causing of the harm.