Anomalies of Section 2 of the Homicide Act 1957.

نویسنده

  • A Kenny
چکیده

Section 2 of the 1957 Homicide Act is indefensible: the concept of 'mental responsibility' is a hybrid which turns the psychiatrist witness either into a thirteenth juryman or a spare barrister. But reform does not lie along the lines suggested by the Butler Committee or the Criminal Law Revision Committee. The latter leaves the jury with insufficient guidance; the former returns to the bad eighteenth century policy of treating mental illness not as a factor in determining responsibility but as a status exempting from responsibility. The much criticised McNaughton rules provide a sounder basis for deciding where responsibility should be assigned in criminal cases.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of medical ethics

دوره 12 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1986