Law- Diminished Responsibility

• What are the four sections of diminished responsibility

  1. Mental abnormality
  2. Recognised medical condition
  3. Substantially impaired
  4. Explanation for conduct
• What act does the definition come from?

  Homicide Act 1957
• Mental abnormality case


  R v Byrne
• Recognised medical condition 


  R v Wood - ADS

  R v Byrne - sexual psychopathy

  R v Campbell - epilepsy
• Substantially impaired case


  R v Conroy - aware attack was wrong
• What act introduced explanation for conduct ?

  Criminal justice act 2009
• What does R v Tandy show?

  Intoxication is only valid if the alcohol causes brain damage or craving is irresistible and therefore consumption isn't voluntary.
• R v Wood ?


  Sentence lowered to voluntary manslaughter

  ADS and brain damage