Discuss (c) eggshell-skull rule

The external element: the prohibited CONDUCT (act or omission), the defined CIRCUMSTANCES and the proscribed RESULT (in result crimes). The anatomy every answer uses: The act: a voluntary muscular movement — the willed act; automatism (the unconscious act: sleep, convulsion, concussion) negates the actus reus itself (a Unit 7 defence by negation); The omission: the general rule — no liability for failing to act; the exceptions where the law imposes a DUTY: (i) the special relationship (parent-child, doctor-patient); (ii) the contractual duty (the lifeguard); (iii) the assumption of care (the one who takes charge isolates the danger- source); (iv) the creation of danger (the one who starts the peril must avert it); (v) the office/ statute (the police officer's duty); The circumstances and results: the surrounding facts the definition makes essential (the "property of another" in theft; the victim's being alive in homicide) and the consequence (death) the result crimes require — with the causation question (4.3) as the bridge.