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6. Inherent Causes: What is the key case for Psychopathy?

  • Martin (Tony)
  • Campbell
  • Gittens
  • Byrne
  • Ahluwalia

7. Inherent Causes: What is the case for Paranoia?

  • Martin (Tony)
  • Ahluwalia
  • English
  • Campbell
  • Reynolds

8. Inherent Causes: What is the key case for Epilepsy?

  • Campbell
  • Reynolds
  • Thornton
  • English
  • Ahluwalia

9. Inherent Causes: What 'cause' matches Gittens?

  • PMT
  • Battered Womens Syndrome
  • Post Natal Depression
  • Depression
  • Epilepsy

10. Inherent Causes: What was the case English about?

  • PMT can be used as a defence
  • Epilepsy is not allowed as a defence
  • Battered Womens Syndrome can be used as a defence
  • Post Natal Depression cannot be used as a defence

11. Name the case: D killed V with a hammer

  • Thornton- Battered Womans Syndrome
  • Reynolds- Post Natal Depression
  • Thornton- Post Natal Depression
  • Ahluwalia- Post Natal Depression
  • Reynolds- Depression

12. Name the Cases for Battered Women's Syndrome

  • Reynolds and Byrne
  • Thornton and Ahluwalia
  • Byrne and English
  • Gittens and Campbell

13. The definition for 'Substantially Impaired' was decided in what case?

  • Lloyd
  • Byrne
  • Egan
  • Tandy

14. What was the definition?

  • It has to be an absolute impairment which is greater than that experienced by the ordinary person, and more than a minimal/trivial cause
  • It does not have to be an absolute impairment, just enough which is greater than that experienced by the ordinary person, and more than a minimal/trivial cause
  • It can be a trivial/minimal impairment that is less than what would be experienced by an ordinary person

15. What happened in this case?

  • D strangled his wife. Medical evidence: D suffered from depression, and so had an abnormal mental responsibility, which was not as ‘minimal’, but not ‘substantial’
  • Intoxicated D, mentally bordering abnormality, went into an elderly womans house, attacked and killed her, with intent to rob her
  • D, alcoholic, drank nearly a whole bottle of vodka and strangled V (11 year old), usual drink barley wine/vermouth

16. Intoxication can also be used:

  • if D is intoxicated, and suffers from an unrelated abnormality of the mind
  • if D is intoxicated, and suffers from an unrelated abnormality of the mind and Ds abnormality of the mind is caused by intoxication
  • if Ds abnormality of the mind is caused by intoxication

17. The cases which decided this were:

  • Lloyd and Egan
  • Tandy and Egan
  • Lloyd and Tandy

18. What happened in Egan?

  • Intoxicated D, mentally bordering abnormality, went into an elderly woman’s house, attacked and killed her, with intent to rob her
  • D, alcoholic, drank nearly a whole bottle of vodka and strangled V (11 year old), usual drink barley wine/vermouth

19. What happened in Tandy?

  • D, alcoholic, drank nearly a whole bottle of vodka and strangled V (11 year old), usual drink barley wine/vermouth
  • Intoxicated D, mentally bordering abnormality, went into an elderly woman’s house, attacked and killed her, with intent to rob her

20. Instead of being a defence, should be a mitigating factor in sentencing

  • Disadvantage
  • Advantage