diminished responsibility

Question 1

r v dowds

Answer 1

get intoxicated

Question 2

r v gold

Answer 2

visibly

Question 3

r v kay

Answer 3

William is 50 stone on a good day. He was recently diagnosed with morbid obesity, This affected his mental health and william has been diagnosed with anxiety and depression. William was in dag. He wobbled past greggs and was enticed by a steak bake he was became infatuated with the steak bake and became unconscious he then ate the manager

Question 4

r v wood

Answer 4

hey babyyy come hold this wood, you dont want this wood, you cant handle it

Question 5

r v dietschmann

Answer 5

if the abnormality of mental functioning impaired the Ds ability regardless of the intoxication they could rely on diminished responsibility

Question 6

diminished responsibility

Answer 6

a person who kills or is a party to the killing of another is not to be convicted of murder if he was suffering from an abnormality of mental functioning

Question 7

substantially impaired

Answer 7

the abnormality of mental functioning must substantially impair Ds mental responsibility for this actions or omissions in the killing

Question 8

abnormality of mental functioning / r v byrne

Answer 8

a state of mental functioning so different from that of the ordinary human being that the reasonable man would deem it abnormal

Question 9

r v tandy

Answer 9

being an alcoholic isn’t an abnormality of mental functioning

Question 10

r v lloyd

Answer 10

does not mean trivial or minimal it is something between and for the jury to decide

Question 11

What act was Diminished Responsibility originally introduced by?

Answer 11

Homicide Act 1957

Question 12

What act amended the Homicide Act 1957?

Answer 12

The Coroners and Justice Act 2009