Diminished Responsibility in UK Law

  • R v Smith (Morgan James)
    • House of Lords
    • 27 July 2000
    ... ... to cause death or really serious harm; (b) provocation; (c) diminished responsibility. The jury by a majority of ten to two convicted him of ... ...
  • Gray v Thames Trains Ltd and another
    • House of Lords
    • 17 June 2009
    ... ... prosecution accepted a plea to manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility. On 3 March 2003 Rafferty J ordered him to be detained in ... ...
  • Holley v AG
    • Privy Council
    • 15 June 2005
    ... ... We have, however, been referred to cases in relation to diminished responsibility, in particular Reg v Tandy (1988) 87 Cr. App. R. 45 ... ...
  • R v Turner (Terence)
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 17 October 1974
    ... ... to suggest that brain damage or organic disease of the brain diminished his sense of responsibility at the time he killed her, and since her death ... ...
  • DPP for Northern Ireland v Lynch
    • House of Lords
    • 12 March 1975
    ... ... these, while it is laid down that a person is exempted from responsibility if he commits an offence under the compulsion of threats of death or of ... But his responsibility is diminished by the duress: his is no longer actus volui , but coactus volui ... ...
  • R v Camplin
    • House of Lords
    • 06 April 1978
    ... ... contained in section 2 in reference to persons suffering from diminished responsibility may merely be noted in passing. Those contained in section ... ...
  • R v Howe; R v Bannister; R v Burke; R v Clarkson
    • House of Lords
    • 19 February 1987
    ... ... of his Government or of a superior shall not free him from responsibility, but may be considered in mitigation of punishment if the Tribunal ... treat duress in murder as analogous to provocation, or perhaps diminished responsibility, and say that, in indictments for murder, duress might ... ...
  • R v Church
    • Court of Criminal Appeal
    • 22 March 1965
    ... ... grounds of (a) criminal negligence, or (b) provocation or (c) diminished responsibility, the conclusion of this Court is that an unlawful act ... ...
  • R (N) v Mental Health Review Tribunal (Northern Region) and Others
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 December 2005
    ... ... November 1987 on three counts of manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility. He was made the subject of a hospital order under section ... ...
  • DPP v Newbury ; DPP v Jones
    • House of Lords
    • 12 May 1976
    ... ... grounds of ( a) criminal negligence, or ( b) provocation, ( c) diminished responsibility, the conclusion of this court is that an unlawful act ... ...
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