Self-Defence - Invol Msl

Question 1

Gladstone and Williams

Answer 1

D must make a genuine and honest mistake (D punched police officer whom D thought was attacking someone else)

Question 2

Bird

Answer 2

D does not have to wait to be attacked (D and ex-boyfriend (V) argued at party, she punched V with glass in hand and claimed self-defence - Defence not allowed)

Question 3

Hussain

Answer 3

Revenge attack is not self-defence (D beat up escaping burglar with cricket bat causing brain damage)

Question 4

Clegg

Answer 4

Was force proportionate ( Soldier shot joyrider in back after speeding past, seen to be disproportionate)

Question 5

Martin

Answer 5

Psychiatric condition not taken into account (D shoot burglars as they were fleeing and tried to claim paranoid personality disorder was the cause)

Question 6

O’Grady

Answer 6

Voluntary intoxication leads to making mistake cannot be relied upon (D killed whilst intoxicated but made genuine honest mistake that V was trying to Kill him)