See eg AG for Jersey v Holley [2005] 3 All ER 371 (BinghamLordHoffmannLord).
2.
R v Kirkham (1837) 8 C & P 115, 117 (Coleridge J).
3.
AG for Jersey v Holley, above n 1, [45].
4.
Mancini v Director of Public Prosecutions [1942] AC 1, 9 (Viscount Simon).
5.
See, eg, R v Lesbini [1914] 3 KB 1116; Bedder v DPP [1954] 1 WLR 1119.
6.
See HoltonRShuteS, ‘You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had: Self-Control in the Modern Provocation Defence’, Unpublished paper, 19.
7.
United Kingdom, Law Commission, Partial Defences to Murder, No 290, Cm 6301 (2004).
8.
AG for Jersey v Holley, above n 1, [27].
9.
Victorian Law Reform Commission, Defences to Homicide: Final Report (November 2004).
10.
See Crimes Act 1958 (Vic) s 3B.
11.
See MurdachA D, ‘Clinical Practice and Heuristic Reasoning’ (1995) 40Social Work752.
12.
Ibid753.
13.
DalrympleT, ‘Rages of the Age’ (2002) 2/54National Review22.
14.
Ibid24.
15.
HoltonShute, above n 6.
16.
Ibid4.
17.
Ibid.
18.
Ibid7.
19.
Ibid8.
20.
Ibid n 23.
21.
Ibid11.
22.
Ibid.
23.
[2001] 1 AC 146.
24.
Ibid173.
25.
CA 315/00, 20 November 2000.
26.
Ibid [22].
27.
An isolated, non-repetitive act of violence.
28.
For a full discussion of the different types of impulse control disorders see SoutulloC AMcElroyS LGoldsmithR J, ‘Cravings and Irresistible Impulses: Similarities between Addictions and Impulse Control Disorders’ (1998) 10/28Psychiatric Annals592–601.
29.
GunnJTaylorP, Forensic Psychiatry: Clinical, Legal and Ethical Issues (1995) 521.
30.
Ibid.
31.
Dalrymple, above n 13.
32.
Ibid.
33.
GunnTaylor, above n 29, 521.
34.
Ibid.
35.
Ibid.
36.
McSherryB, ‘Criminal Responsibility, “Fleeting” States of Mental Impairment, and the Power of Self-Control’ (2004) 27(5) International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 445–57.
37.
De PasqualeSanto, ‘Provocation and the Homosexual Advance Defence: The Deployment of Culture as a Defence Strategy’ (2002) 26Melbourne University Law Review110, 117, cited in McSherry, above n 36, n 44.
38.
McSherry, above n 36, 454.
39.
Dalrymple, above n 13, 23.
40.
CornwellJ R, ‘The Confusion of Causes and Reasons in Forensic Psychology:' Deconstructing mens rea and other Mental Events’ (1999) 33University of Richmond Law Review107.
41.
DershowitzA M, The Abuse Excuse (1994) 41.
42.
YannoulidisS, ‘Excusing Fleeting Mental States: Provocation, Involuntariness and Normative Practice’ (2005) 12(1) Psychiatry, Psychology and Law23, 26.
43.
R v Hayward (1833) 6 C & P 157, 159, 172 ER 1188, 1189 (TindalCJ) cited in Yannoulidis, above n 42, 32.
44.
Ibid.
45.
CarrollAForresterA, ‘Depressive Rage and Criminal Responsibility’ (2005) 12(1) Psychiatry, Psychology and Law36, 40.
46.
See BarrattE SFelthousA R, ‘Impulsive versus Premeditated Aggression: Implications for Mens Rea Decisions’ (2003) 21Behavioural Sciences and Law619, 630, cited in Carroll and Forrester, ibid.
47.
Ibid.
48.
Ibid.
49.
SoutulloC AMcElroyS LGoldsmithR J, ‘Cravings and Irresistible Impulses: Similarities between Addictions and Impulse Control Disorders’ (1998) 28(10) Psychiatric Annals592.
50.
SchlesingerL B, ‘Familicide, Depression and Catathymic Process’ (2000) 45(1) Journal of Forensic Science200–203.
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