Read the full judgment text of CACC 213/2020 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 2 February 2024.
1. This application concerned the defence of diminished responsibility where the uncontradicted psychiatric evidence was that the applicant was suffering from an abnormality of mind at the time of the killing, and raised for consideration (1) the relevance of psychological evidence on the question of whether the abnormality of mind substantially impaired his mental responsibility for the act that caused the victim’s death; (2) whether the uncontradicted psychiatric evidence warranted the withdra
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