CASES

• s.2 Homicide Act 1957

  Diminished responsibility is contained in.
• s.52 Coroners and Justice Act 2009


  Diminished responsibility was amended in.
• Byrne


  Defined AMF as ‘a state of mind so different from that of an ordinary human being that the reasonable man would term it abnormal’.
• Bunch


  There must be medical evidence to support the defence.
• Seers ; Gittens 


  Depression
• Martin

  Paranoid personality disorder
• Ahluwalia


  Battered Women’s Syndrome (BWS)
• Vinagre

  Othello's syndrome - an obsessive jealousy.
• Golds


  It was determined that if the jury cannot decide this then they will be directed that ‘substantial’ means ‘significant’ or ‘more than minimal'.
• Dowds

  Intoxication is not an AMF.
• Dietchmann


  Jury need to dismiss the intoxication and decide based on whether he would have killed without the intoxicating substance.
• Stewart

  If the defendant has Alcohol Dependence Syndrome then this may be an AMF if his drinking is involuntary due to the addiction.