On 7 Sep, 07:43, Doug  wrote:
> On 6 Sep, 17:48, Derek  wrote:> On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 17:10:20 +0100, Clive 
> > wrote:
>
> > >In message
> > >,
> > >Doug  writes
> > >>Which answer to the need for a level playing field and a single law
> > >>covering all killings regardless of location or weapon?
> > >So an armed police officer who shoots dead a man carrying a table leg,
> > >should get life?
>
> > A surgeon who nicks a blood vessel that was hidden in an obese
> > patients fat ?
>
> So is the conclusion that certain people are immune from punishment
> for killing others, due to the nature of their job?

<sigh>

It would help if you knew even the basics of this subject on which you
like to expound.

Go and look up the leading case of R v Adomako.  There's tons of stuff
on t'internet about it - a starter for ten is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manslaughter_in_English_law), and then
come back and we can discuss it.