Incapacity | Cases

Automatism

Hill v Baxter [1958] 1 QB 277, [1958] 2 W.L.R. 76

Infancy

Re JTB [2009] UKHL 20, [2009] Crim. L.R. 581

Insanity

Defect of Reason

Clarke [1972] 1 All ER 219, (1972) 56 Cr. App. R. 225

Disease of the Mind

M’Naghten (1843) 10 Cl & Fin 200

Hill v Baxter [1958] 1 QB 277, [1958] 2 W.L.R. 76

Sullivan [1984] AC 156, [1983] Crim. L.R. 740

Quick [1973] QB 910, [1973] Crim. L.R. 434

R v Kemp (1957) 1 QB 399

Hennessy [1989] 2 All ER 9, [1989] Crim. L.R. 356

Burgess [1991] 2 Q.B. 92, [1991] Crim. L.R. 548

Not Knowing the Nature of the Act or that it is wrong

R v Johnson [2007] EWCA Crim 1978, [2008] Crim LR 132

Intoxication

Involuntary

Kingston [1995] 2 AC 355, [1994] Crim. L.R. 846

Voluntary

Majewski [1977] AC 443, [1976] Crim. L.R. 374

Allen [1988] Crim LR 698

Heard [2007] EWCA Crim. 125 [2007] Crim LR 654

Lipman [1970] 1 QB 152

Dangerous or non-dangerous drugs

Bailey [1983] 1 W.L.R. 760, [1983] Crim. L.R. 533

Hardie [1985] 1 W.L.R. 64, [1984] 3 All ER 848

Richardson and Irwin [1999] 1 Cr App R 392, [1999] Crim. L.R. 494

Intoxicated Mistake

Jaggard v Dickinson [1981] QB 527, [1980] Crim. L.R. 717

Richardson and Irwin [1999] 1 Cr App R 392, [1999] Crim. L.R. 494