What’s happening with the reformed diminished responsibility plea?

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dc.contributor.authorMackay, R.
dc.date.acceptance2021-07-21
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-07T14:33:57Z
dc.date.available2021-10-07T14:33:57Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-16
dc.descriptionThe file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.en
dc.description.abstractThe reformed section 2 of the Homicide Act 1957 is markedly different from the original provision. Despite this, the ‘official line’ has been that the changes to the plea were merely ones of ‘clarification’ and ‘modernisation’. This article analyses the requirements of the new section 2 in the context of the results of an empirical study into the operation of the new plea carried out by myself and Professor Barry Mitchell. In doing so, it attempts to evaluate the changes which have taken place through an analysis of a sample of 90 cases involving the new plea. The results of the study are discussed in order to assess the validity of the ‘official line’. Is it correct, or have the new elements in section 2 resulted in unintended consequences?en
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dc.identifier.citationMackay, R. (2021) What’s happening with the reformed diminished responsibility plea? Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 72(2), pp.224–244.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v72i2.873
dc.identifier.issn0029-3105
dc.identifier.urihttps://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/21343
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.publisherSchool of Law, Queen's University, Belfasten
dc.researchinstituteCentre for Law, Justice and Societyen
dc.subjectdiminished responsibilityen
dc.subjecthomicideen
dc.subjectpartial defencesen
dc.subjectreformen
dc.subjectLaw Commissionen
dc.subjectMinistry of Justiceen
dc.subjectmodernisationen
dc.subjectcontested cases.en
dc.titleWhat’s happening with the reformed diminished responsibility plea?en
dc.typeArticleen

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