Loss of Control in UK Law
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Strategic Defense: Catastrophic Loss of Control
What if space-based strategic defense, as proposed by the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), eventually works reasonably well and is deployed on both sides? This paper examines the properties of t...
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The Loss of Control Defence—Fit for Purpose?
This article examines the case law on the loss of control defence and considers whether the interpretation of the defence has been too conservative so that the defence is barely available as a defe...
- Loss of control: ‘sufficient evidence’
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Replacing Provocation in England and Wales: Examining the Partial Defence of Loss of Control
In October 2010, provocation was abolished as a partial defence to murder in England and Wales. Through the introduction of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, a new partial defence of loss of contr...
- Loss of Control: ‘Sufficient Evidence’ (Again)
- Loss of Control beyond Sexual Infidelity
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Political Rhetoric or Principled Reform of Loss of Control? Anglo-Australian Perspectives on the Exclusionary Conduct Model
The New South Wales Legislative Council Select Committee published its report on the partial defence of provocation in April 2013. The Committee's recommendations are closely modelled on the framew...
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Contributory Qualifying and Non-Qualifying Triggers in the Loss of Control Defence: A Wrong Turn on Sexual Infidelity
This article considers the decision of the Court of Appeal in R v Clinton where Lord Judge CJ speaking for the Court of Appeal held that sexual infidelity could be considered under the third prong ...
- Loss of Control: The Qualifying Triggers, Self-Induced Loss of Self-Control and ‘Cumulative Impact’
- Raising the Bar: Loss of Control and the Qualifying Triggers
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