Anil K. Kapoor of The Court has an excellent piece on the recent R v. Beatty decision, expounding on the distinction between criminal and civil liability in accidents.

Mr. Beatty was charged with three counts of dangerous driving causing death. He had been working in the sun all day and was driving home on a two way, two-lane highway. It was a sunny, hot, summer day. Those who were traveling behind Mr. Beatty’s car noted nothing remarkable about his driving until, without any precipitating event, he suddenly veered into oncoming traffic and struck a vehicle, killing its three occupants.

Read the post in full here.