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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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Current Issue
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 SimpsonFull Issue
Introduction
Introduction
Abstract 84 | NILQ 72.2.0 Intro Downloads 88Page 161–170
Articles
Partial defences to murder: changed landscape and nomenclature
Abstract 124 | NILQ 72.2.1 Fortson Downloads 9Page 171–199
Loss of control in the appeal courts
Abstract 93 | NILQ 72.2.3 Sullivan et al Downloads 7Page 200–223
What’s happening with the reformed diminished responsibility plea?
Abstract 71 | NILQ 72.2.3 Mackay Downloads 5Page 224–244
Women who kill abusive partners: reviewing the impact of section 55(3) ‘fear of serious violence’ manslaughter – some empirical findings
Abstract 174 | NILQ 72.2.4 Edwards Downloads 16Page 245–270
The role of loss of self-control in defences to homicide: a critical analysis of Anglo-Australian developments
Abstract 146 | NILQ 72.2.5 Douglas and Reed Downloads 113Page 271–323
Diminished responsibility determinations in England and Wales and New South Wales: whose role is it anyway?
Abstract 79 | NILQ 72.2.6 Crofts and Wake Downloads 44Page 324–362
Rationales: rejected, imagined and real – provocation, loss of control and extreme mental or emotional disturbance
Abstract 74 | NILQ 72.2.7 Bergelson Downloads 46Page 363–388
Commentaries and Notes
R v Westwood (Thomas): diminished responsibility and disposals under the Mental Health Act 1983
Abstract 75 | NILQ 72.2.8 Mennim Downloads 4Page 389–396
R v Foy (Nicholas): voluntary intoxication, mental health and the case for diminished responsibility
Abstract 86 | NILQ 72.2.9 Simpson Downloads 6Page 397–405
Criminal law pedagogy
Abstract 71 | NILQ 72.2.10 Pascoe Downloads 5Page 406–410
The Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly is a legal research journal published quarterly by the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast.