Lord Tucker said: ‘A man may know what he is doing and intend to do it and yet suffer from such abnormality of mind as substantially impairs his mental responsibility’.
Judges:
Lord Tucker
Citations:
[1961] AC 49
Cited by:
Cited – Regina v Khan CACD 27-Jul-2009
On his trial for murder the defendant produced unchallenged expert evidence that at the time of the offence, his mental responsibility for the killing was substantially impaired by his mental illness. He said that in these circumstances the charge . .
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Crime, Commonwealth
Updated: 02 May 2022; Ref: scu.372332
