Homicide or Murder in UK Law
Leading Cases
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Hyam v DPP
...... to an accused person in order to find him guilty of the crime of murder. Is it simply the intention to kill or cause grievous bodily harm (in the ...This remained the law until 1957, when, by section 1 of the Homicide Act of that year, the doctrine of constructive malice in the above sense ......
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R v Jogee
...... The appellants Jogee and Ruddock were each convicted of murder after directions to the jury in which the trial judges sought to apply the ... one of them): "… the doctrine of constructive homicide … does not apply where the only evidence is that the parties were ......
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DPP for Northern Ireland v Lynch
...... has to be proved before an accused person can be found guilty of murder by having aided and abetted. Save as to one matter to which I will later ... there are lesser degrees of heinousness, even of involvement in homicide, seems beyond doubt. An accessory before the fact, or an aided or abettor, ......
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R v Howe; R v Bannister; R v Burke; R v Clarkson
...... the four men of two murders (Elgar and Pollitt) and a conspiracy to murder (Redfern, an intended victim who escaped in time). The three counts ...But in England at least it has a conceptual basis defined in the Homicide Act 1957 which is totally distinct from that of duress if duress be ......
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Legislation
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Homicide Act 1957
...... for England and Wales (and for courts-martial wherever sitting) amendments of the law relating to homicide and the trial and punishment of murder, and for Scotland amendments of the law relating to the trial and punishment of murder and attempts to murder. . B e. it enacted by the Queen's ......
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Offences Against the Person Act 1861
...... . Homicide. . Homicide. . S-1 . Murder. 1 Murder. . . Whosoever shall be ......
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Domestic Abuse Act 2021
......2021/1038, reg. 3(b) . 17: Duty to send conclusions of domestic homicide review to Commissioner . (1) Section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and .... (2) The offences to which subsection (1) applies are—(a) murder;(b) manslaughter;(c) an offence under section 18, 20 or 47 of the Offences ......
- Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965
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Books & Journal Articles
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New foundations: Pseudo-pacification and special liberty as potential cornerstones for a multi-level theory of homicide and serial murder
Over the past 30 years the industrialized West has witnessed a move towards space, heterogeneity and subjectivity in the criminological study of violence and homicide. Although large-scale quantita...
- Book Review: Investigating Murder: Detective Work and the Police Response to Criminal Homicide
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Stepping stones to sexual murder: the role of developmental factors in the etiology of sexual homicide
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of a variety of developmental factors on sexual homicide offenders (SHOs), while taking into account other components of sexual homicide th...
- Review: Investigating Murder: Detective Work and the Police Response to Criminal Homicide, Preparing for Police Duty, Textbook on Criminal Law, 7th Edition, Abuse of Process in Criminal Proceedings
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Law Firm Commentaries
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Whole Life Orders ' An Analysis Of The Court Of Appeal Judgment In McCann And Sinaga
......might be imposed in a non-homicide case, i.e. under a discretionary. life sentence. Following trials for ...attempts/plans to commit mass murder. The article goes on to. explore the Court's somewhat unorthodox reasoning ......
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Unlawful Killing Following Maughan ' New Guidance Issued By The Chief Coroner
......serious crimes of murder and manslaughter). The Supreme Court. placed an emphasis on consistency ...been due to a homicide offence and that a person may be charged in. relation to the offence, a ......
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