Mentally Disordered Offenders

(asked on 4th September 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the discussion paper, Criminal Liability: Insanity and Automatism, published by the Law Commission in July 2013, whether the Government has plans to reform the legislation on the defence of insanity.


Answered by
Lucy Frazer Portrait
Lucy Frazer
This question was answered on 10th September 2018

The Ministry of Justice has no current plans to reform the law of the defence of insanity.

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