"Momentary lapse" is sufficient to avoid serious jail time in the UK too. Driving is not considered a skilled task, yet every day the evidence says otherwise.

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Is it considered “woke” now to believe laws should apply to car drivers especially when they commit manslaughter? Do we need Bike Lives Matter?

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I agree one million per cent with your overall point, of course. The minority at least didn’t say, “No crime here.” Its view was more, “The bar for us to overturn an acquittal is REALLY high and the trial judge’s reasoning wasn’t so obviously shoddy as to justify it here.”

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The good news is this SCC decision pushes back against the bizarre trend of excusing driving conduct that kills on the basis that there was only a momentary lapse of attention - the driver who killed Kristy Hodson as she walked on a sidewalk was acquitted in 2017 on that basis.

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So, this could clearly be an easy way to solve our Doug Ford problem, so long as it’s not obviously premeditated…

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