R v Rudling [2016] EWCA Crim 1019

Court: Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)

Facts: D, a doctor, failed to attend to a patient with serious symptoms, resulting in the patient’s death.

Held: Conviction quashed. The failure to act did not meet the threshold for criminal liability given the lack of obvious and serious risk.

Key Judicial Statement: Lord Justice Davis stated, "The risk must be both serious and obvious to the reasonable person to support a conviction for gross negligence manslaughter."