R v Michael Eifinger

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLORD JUSTICE LATHAM
Judgment Date02 August 2001
Neutral Citation[2001] EWCA Crim 1855
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Docket NumberNo: 9803011/W3
Date02 August 2001

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5 cases
  • R v Khan (Dawood)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 27 July 2009
    ...had not been established, on a balance of probabilities. 25 Mr Mansell also relied on the decision of this court in R v Eifinger [2001] EWCA Crim 1855. The defendant had killed a publican, for whom he had worked and who was a friend. The defence of diminished responsibility was rejected by ......
  • Michael James Brennan v The Crown
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 19 June 2015
    ...evidence – no entirely unqualified right on the part of the jury so to refuse was acknowledged. 58 That was also the outcome in the case of Eifinger [2001] EWCA Crim 1855. In that case, on its facts, the court emphasised that the views of the doctors opining in favour of diminished responsi......
  • R v Michael Brennan
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 22 July 2015
    ...unqualified right on the part of the jury so to refuse was acknowledged. 58. That was also the outcome in the case of R v EifingerUNK[2001] EWCA Crim 1855. In that case, on its facts, the court emphasised that the views of the doctors opining in favour of diminished responsibility were, as ......
  • Adderley v R
    • Bahamas
    • Court of Appeal (Bahamas)
    • 31 May 2017
    ...Raymond Jones et al SCCrApp 12, 18 and 19 of 2007 — Considered David Adolphus Walton v. The Queen [1978] A.C. 788 Applied Eifinger [2001] EWCA Crim. 1855 Considered Leonard John Saunders v Regina 1991 CAR Vol. 93 Considered Prince Hepburn v Regina SCCrApp No. 79 of 2013 Considered R v Bai......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Diminished responsibility: Jury verdicts and ‘uncontradicted’ psychiatric evidence
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 79-1, February 2015
    • 1 February 2015
    ...to murder, despite evi- dence supporting a plea of diminished responsibility in R v Sanders (1991) 93 Cr App R 245 and R vEifinger [2001] EWCA Crim 1855. In the former case, Watkins LJ explained that there were ‘two clearprinciples’ applicable in all diminished responsibility cases. The fir......

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