Diminished Responsibility - Partial Defence
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- Created on: 07-12-14 12:06
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- Diminished Responsibility
- S52 Coroners and Justice Act 2009
- 1) Recognised medical condition
- must be a conditions recognise by medical experts
- Anthony Martin - paranoid personality disorder and depression
- Byrne - sexual psychopath; uncontrollable desires
- Hobson - battered women's syndrome
- Tandy - alcoholism can be a cause of abnormality so longs as the consumption of the drink was involuntary (ADS)
- must be a conditions recognise by medical experts
- 2) Substantial impairment of D's ability to;
- understand the nature of their conduct - D in automatic state and does not know what they are doing
- form a rational judgement - paranoid schizophrenia/ battered women's syndrome
- exercise self control- Byrne
- Lloyd - impairment need not be total but must be more than trivial - the disorder played a significant role in the substantial impariment
- 3) Provides an explanation to D's actions
- Abnormality was at least a significant contributory factor in causing D to carry out the conduct
- Dietschmann - has to be proven that the medical condition was the significant reason why D killed
- Wood + Tandy - D suffering from ADS
- Stewart - the nature and extent of the ADS has to be considered
- Abnormality was at least a significant contributory factor in causing D to carry out the conduct
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