Insanity

    Cards (5)

    • M’Naghten?

      D was labouring under a defect of reason due to a disease of the mind so that they did not understand the nature and quality of their actions, or that they did not know it was wrong.
    • Defect of reason?
      complete loss of powers of reasoning (Clarke)
    • Disease of the mind?
      anything that produces malfunctioning of the mind, e.g. epilepsy (Sullivan), sleepwalking (Burgess) and hyperglycaemia (Hennessy)
    • Windle?
      D does not know nature and quality OR that what they were doing was legally wrong
    • Criminal Procedure (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991?

      a successful defence will lead to a special verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity.
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