Read the full judgment text of FAMC 000056/2007 on BabelCite. This FAMC judgment was delivered on 12 December 2007.
1. We certify the involvement of two points of law of great and general importance. The first is the point raised by the question whether psychiatric evidence is admissible to show that an accused’s drug or drink induced condition negatived his intention to cause or capacity to appreciate the danger to life created by his conduct. And the second point is the one raised by the question whether such a condition is a defence where the accused has only himself to blame for its existence.