criminal responsibility

Exceptions to the Mental Health Exemption: Examining and Re-examining Terror Offences

By Wannette Van Eg Dom -Tuinstra| 2025-05-06T09:52:54+00:00 April 1st, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, The Legal Treatment of Defendants with Partial Criminal Responsibility|Tags: criminal responsibility, defendants, mental health exemption, terror offences|0 Comments

Part of the SLSA Blog Series ‘The Legal Treatment of Defendants with Partial Criminal Responsibility’ Dr. Wannette Van Eg Dom -Tuinstra, Student Experience Manager and Associate Lecturer at The Open University Law School ‘How could a person commit such an act of inhumanity, of barbarity, of evil?’ This is the perennial question when the world faces [...]

Narrating Domestic Abuse When Women Kill – Lessons from R v Jackson

Part of the SLSA Blog Series ‘The Legal Treatment of Defendants with Partial Criminal Responsibility’ Dr Kirsty Welsh, Senior Lecturer, Nottingham Law School R v Jackson[1] In 2021, Penelope Jackson, a 66year-oldwoman, was convicted of murdering her husband of 25 years. After a disagreement over dinner, she stabbed him twice and then twice again whilst [...]