Can a person be presumed to have intended the natural consequences of their actions?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from McMeekin v. Alberta (Attorney General), 2012 ABQB 456 (CanLII):
There is a well established principle in law that a person can be presumed to have intended the natural consequences of their acts: Starr v. Houlden, 1990 CanLII 112 (SCC), [1990] 1 S.C.R. 1366, 68 D.L.R. (4th) 641. People make mistakes, and (hopefully) learn from them. When a person takes an incorrect action, is informed of their error, but then persists and commits the same ‘error’ again and again, that is evidence that the person does not misunderstand their action is incorrect. Rather, that indicates the person wants to break the rules.
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