Diminished Responsibility Flashcards by Leela Khan

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What is an A01 diminished responsibility?

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It came from the Homicide Act 1957
the abnormality was a substaintial cause of the D’s act of killing

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What is the abnormality of the mind?

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a state of mind so different from the of an ordinary human the reasonable man would term it abnormal.

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What is voluntary manslaughter?

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Where the charge is murder but the defence applies which reduces it to manslaughter.
This includes:
-Diminished responsibliity
-Loss of control.

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