Defence of Drunkenness in UK Law
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R v Majewski
... ... After medical evidence had been called by the defence as to the effect of the drugs and drink the appellant had taken, the ... as it prevailed until early in the 19th century voluntary drunkenness was never an excuse for criminal misconduct; and indeed the classic ... ...
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R v Caldwell
... ... He relied upon his self-induced drunkenness as a defence, on the ground that the offence under subsection (2) was one ... ...
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DPP for Northern Ireland v Lynch
... ... main contention of the Appellant and one of the main lines of his defence at the trial was that all that he had done had been done under duress and ... In all such matters as capacity, sanity, drunkenness, coercion, necessity, provocation, self-defence, the common law, through ... ...
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R v Sheehan
... ... 13 In essence Sheehan's defence at the trial was that he had no real recollection of the material events ... end of his direction on the law, he turned to the question of drunkenness and said: "Well, this is the position in law … ... Drunkenness is only a ... ...
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Re M (A Minor) (Care Orders: Threshold Conditions)
... ... the outset of the trial counsel for the respondent foreshadowed a defence on the lines that as part of the plan Penn had secretly administered drugs ... It was proved, that, in a fit of drunkenness, he had beaten her in a cruel manner with a rake-shank, and that she died ... ...
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H. M. Advocate v Campbell
... ... Crime—Mens rea—Murder—Culpable homicide—Defence of drunkenness. At the trial of a husband for the murder of ... ...
- R v Morgan
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Watt v Longsdon
... ... in England, a letter containing gross charges of immorality, drunkenness and dishonesty on the part of the plaintiff, who was the managing director ... was chairman and had a controlling interest therein,” and the defence admitted it: “The facts alleged in paragraph 1 of the statement of claim ... ...
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Bratty v Attorney-General for Northern Ireland
... ... rejected by the jury, it was open to the accused to rely upon a defence of automatism: and 2. If the answer to (1) be in the ... Take first an involuntary act which proceeds from a state of drunkenness. If the drunken man is so drunk that he does not know what he is doing, he ... ...
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Hart v O'Connor
... ... agreement was unenforceable because the terms were unfair, but the defence of laches succeeded. The Court of Appeal of New Zealand, allowing the ... ...
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