s3 Homicide Act 1957 as amended by s54 Coroners and Justices Act 2009
- D lost control
- R V THORNTON/ R V ALUWHALIA- no need to be sudden
- R V IBRAMS & GREGORY- can be a delay
- R V BAILE- no revenge allowed
- Must be a qualifying trigger
- R V PEARSON- fear
- anticipatory force
- reactive force
- R V DOUGHTY- anger
- circumstances of extremely grave character
- justifiable sense of being wronged
- "would a person of D's sex and age, with a normal degree of tolerance and self-restraint and in the circumstances of D have acted in the same way?"
- DPP V CAMPLIN= same sex and age, R V MORHALL= specific cirumstances of D
- AG OF JERSEY V HOLLEY- standard shouldn't change between D's
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