Felstead v R
Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
Year | 1914 |
Court | House of Lords |
Date | 1914 |
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Attorney General's Reference (No. 3 of 1998)
...provisions alleviated some of the harsher aspects of the special verdict. As it amounted to an acquittal, there was no right of appeal. ( R v Felstead [1914] AC 534) Some of these considerations were repeated in R v Duke [1963] 1 QB 120, in the context of the then new defence to murder intr......
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Application of Neilan
...OF INSANITY 1968 IR JUR NS 61 TRIAL OF LUNATICS ACT 1883 S2(1) TRIAL OF LUNATICS ACT 1883 S2(2) TRIAL OF LUNATICS ACT 1883 S1 R V FELSTEAD 1914 AC 534 ADAPTATIONS OF ENACTMENTS ACT 1922 S11(1) CONSTITUTION SAORSTAT EIREANN ART 51 CONSTITUTION ART 49 O, STATE V O'BRIEN 1973 IR 50 CHILDREN A......
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R v Antoine
...mens rea of the crime alleged because in an insanity case the issue of mens rea ceases to be relevant, Lord Reading having stated in Felstead v. The King [1914] A.C. 534, 542: "The indictment of the appellant was for 'feloniously' and 'maliciously' wounding Lilian Ann Felstead, with intent......
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R v Martin Burke
...statutory history nor the current framework of the 1964 Act; nor, in addition, had it taken account of the House of Lords' decision in Felstead v The King.18 B. R v Antoine19 42 In R v Antoine the defendant was found unfit to stand trial for murder. The issues that this court 20 identified ......
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Criminal Cases Review (Insanity) Act 1999
...of Criminal Appeal, the question arose whether there was an appeal to that Court against a verdict of ‘guilty but insane’. In Felstead [1914] AC 534, the House of Lords held that a person found guilty but insane was acquitted of the offence because he lacks the guilty mind required for him ......