Partial Defences: Voluntary Manslaughter: Diminished Responsibility
Elements with cases, definitions, disadvantages, reforms
- Created by: Anisha
- Created on: 10-06-11 09:29
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2. Partial Defences can only be used as a defence for Murder
- True
- False
3. Diminished Responsibility is
- A Statutory Defence defined in: s3 Homicide Act 1957
- A Statutory Defence defined in: s2 Homicide Act 1967
- A Statutory Defence defined in s52 Coroners and Criminal Justice Act 2009
- A Common Law Defence as defined by Lord Denning
- A Statutory Defence define in s4 Homicide Act 1957
4. In Diminished Responsibility, Byrne is the key case for which element?
- Inherent Causes
- Abnormality of the Mind
- Substantially Impair the Mental Responsibility of Your Act
5. What happened in this case?
- D, alcoholics, drank nearly a whole bottle of vodka and strangled V (11 year old), usual drink barley wine/vermouth
- D strangled and mutilated V. D had suffered from perverted sexual desires which had been created irresistible impulses. This is a situation so different that the ‘reasonable man’ would deem it ‘abnormal’
- Intoxicated D, mentally bordering abnormality, went into an elderly woman’s house, attacked and killed her, with intent to rob her
- D strangled his wife. There was Medical evidence to suggest that D suffered from depression
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