Murder Charge in UK Law
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The Legal History of the Lockerbie Aircraft Bombing Case and a Reference for Another Appeal
The only person against whom a charge of murder was proved in regard to the Lockerbie bombing case in 1988 had an appeal against conviction refused. A subsequent referral of the case back for furth...... ... Solicitor in Scotland, UK Abstract The only person against whom a charge of murder was proved in regard to the Lockerbie bombing case in 1988 had ... ...
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The Lockerbie Aircraft Bombing Case and the Final Appeal
The only person against whom a charge of murder was proved in regard to the Lockerbie bombing case in 1988 had an appeal against conviction refused. A subsequent referral of the case back for furth...... ... Solicitor in Scotland, UK Abstract The only person against whom a charge of murder was proved in regard to the Lockerbie bombing case in 1988 had ... ...
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The Murder of Linda Peacock: A Triumph for Forensic Odontology
Mr. Muncie was in charge of the inquiry into the following murder, which is surely unique in British criminal annals, for a warrant to take measurements and examine a person was granted before his ...... ... DET. CHIEF SUPT. WILLIAM MUNCIE Lanarkshire Constabulary Mr. Muncie was in charge of the inquiry into the following murder, which is surely uniquein British criminal annals, for a warrant to take measurements and ... ...
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The Role of Error in Objecto in South African Criminal Law
State v Pistorius provides an opportunity to consider error in objecto in the context of the broader approach to dolus in South African criminal law. For the last 60 years South Africa has taken a ...... ... to claim that the victim’s identity is always irrelevantto a charge of murder.KeywordsSubjective intention, putative defences, error in ... ...
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Psychiatric evidence in Diminished Responsibility
Diminished Responsibility is a statutory partial defence to the charge of murder in the Homicide Act 1957 which has been amended by the Coroners and Justice Act 2009. In R v Brennan, the Court of A...... ... Diminished Responsibility is a statutory partial defence to the charge of murder in the Homicide Act 1957 which has been amended by the Coroners ... ...
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Consent and the ‘Rough Sex’ Defence in Rape, Murder, Manslaughter and Gross Negligence
When women die at the hands of men, a not infrequent defence is that she consented to, or initiated, the beating, strangulation and penetration which contributed to her death. While strangulation h...... ... new clauses including, proposing that consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions would be re quired, in the case of death, to accept a charge to anything less than murder (cl 6); the require ment to consult with the family of the deceased regarding charges (cl 7); the prohibition of re f e ... ...
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Diminished Responsibility and Unanimous Psychiatric Evidence: R v Hussain (Imran) [2019] EWCA Crim 666 (2 April 2019)
... ... 2019) Keywords Extensions of time, jury directions, mental health, murder, diminished responsibility, withdrawal In 2013, the applicant, then a ... Golds did not suggest that a trial judge should withdraw a charge of murder from the jury simply on the basis the medical evidence pointed ... ...
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The Police and the Law
... ... Treacy was convicted at Chelmsford Assizes of the murder of a girl. He had presented himself at a police station at ... whom they were looking and that he would be detained on a charge of murdering the girl. This statement was, of course, admissible ... ...
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Review: The Criminal Law: A Short Introduction
... ... three Parts, the first of which describes the course of a murder charge through the courts from arrest to appeal-a valuable guide ... ...
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Pleas in Murder Cases
... ... 265 ... Faced with the murder charge and its mandatory life sentence on conviction, Osborn and his lawyers were in a dilemma. It was unlikely that a jury would convict on the murder ... ...
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