The origins of the Homicide Act 1957.
نویسنده
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Recent legal issues in the defence of provocation.
The Homicide Act 1957 has been in force for over 40 years. This article briefly reviews the state of the law regarding provocation prior to the Act, and subsequent attempts to modify the interpretation of the Act to date.
متن کاملAnomalies of Section 2 of the Homicide Act 1957.
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 eig...
متن کاملبررسی فقهی - حقوقی مسئولیت کیفری ناقل ایدز در قتل؛ با تکیه بر انتقال از طریق تماس جنسی
The authors of this article try to study a subject which has challenged not only legal society but also human society from the viewpoint of Islamic jurisprudence and law. The article discusses to a person who has been infected with HIV and has a sexual relation with another person intentionally. As a result, a question will be posed: Can a criminal liability be considered for such a person? In ...
متن کاملA Calendar of Murder
Immediately prior to publication, one of the authors of this book gave a public 'ecture entitled "Psychopathology and Homicide" to a medical audience. As a result ?f this, certain of the more informed, and therefore be it acknowledged, more sensitive doctors among his hearers came to the conclusion that both his own views and those to be expressed in the book would be that "many psychiatric pat...
متن کاملIntimate Partner Homicide by Presence or Absence of a Self-Destructive Act
Intimate partner homicide is not only the most common type of domestic homicide, but is also most prevalent in homicides followed by a self-destructive act (e.g., suicide or a suicide attempt). To date, very few studies have addressed this unique circumstance of intimate partner homicide, particularly in comparison to intimate partner homicides that are not followed by a self-destructive act. O...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of medical ethics
دوره 12 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1986