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The Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly is a leading peer-reviewed journal that provides an international forum for articles, commentaries and notes in all areas of legal scholarship and across a range of methodologies including doctrinal, theoretical and socio-legal. 


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Vol. 72 No. 2 (2021): Summer

Published: 2021-09-16

Special Issue: Domestic and Comparative Perspectives on Loss of Self-control and Diminished Responsibility as Partial Defences to Murder: A 10-year Review of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 Reform Framework   Guest Editors: Alan Reed, Nicola Wake and Bethany Simpson        

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Introduction

Introduction

Alan Reed, Nicola Wake, Bethany Simpson
Abstract 60 | NILQ 72.2.0 Intro Downloads 39

Page 161–170

NILQ 72.2.0 Intro

Articles

Partial defences to murder: changed landscape and nomenclature

Rudi Fortson QC
Abstract 63 | NILQ 72.2.1 Fortson Downloads 6

Page 171–199

Requires Subscription NILQ 72.2.1 Fortson

Loss of control in the appeal courts

G R Sullivan, H S Crombag, J J Child
Abstract 66 | NILQ 72.2.3 Sullivan et al Downloads 4

Page 200–223

Requires Subscription NILQ 72.2.3 Sullivan et al

What’s happening with the reformed diminished responsibility plea?

Ronnie Mackay
Abstract 51 | NILQ 72.2.3 Mackay Downloads 3

Page 224–244

Requires Subscription NILQ 72.2.3 Mackay

Women who kill abusive partners: reviewing the impact of section 55(3) ‘fear of serious violence’ manslaughter – some empirical findings

Susan S M Edwards
Abstract 96 | NILQ 72.2.4 Edwards Downloads 9

Page 245–270

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The role of loss of self-control in defences to homicide: a critical analysis of Anglo-Australian developments

Heather Douglas, Alan Reed
Abstract 84 | NILQ 72.2.5 Douglas and Reed Downloads 53

Page 271–323

NILQ 72.2.5 Douglas and Reed

Diminished responsibility determinations in England and Wales and New South Wales: whose role is it anyway?

Thomas Crofts, Nicola Wake
Abstract 55 | NILQ 72.2.6 Crofts and Wake Downloads 30

Page 324–362

NILQ 72.2.6 Crofts and Wake

Rationales: rejected, imagined and real – provocation, loss of control and extreme mental or emotional disturbance

Vera Bergelson
Abstract 45 | NILQ 72.2.7 Bergelson Downloads 27

Page 363–388

NILQ 72.2.7 Bergelson

Commentaries and Notes

R v Westwood (Thomas): diminished responsibility and disposals under the Mental Health Act 1983

Sean Mennim
Abstract 48 | NILQ 72.2.8 Mennim Downloads 3

Page 389–396

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R v Foy (Nicholas): voluntary intoxication, mental health and the case for diminished responsibility

Bethany Simpson
Abstract 54 | NILQ 72.2.9 Simpson Downloads 5

Page 397–405

Requires Subscription NILQ 72.2.9 Simpson

Criminal law pedagogy

Daniel Pascoe
Abstract 48 | NILQ 72.2.10 Pascoe Downloads 4

Page 406–410

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The Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly is a legal research journal published quarterly by the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast.