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The Homicide Act: Origins, Anomalies and Proposals for Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Christopher Cordess
Christopher Cordess*
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Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5
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The fourth Forensic Psychiatry Specialist Section Conference of the College was held at Stratford-upon-Avon on 1 and 2 February 1985. The theme was the Homicide Act and the wider context of insanity legislation in theory and in practice. Not difficult to predict that so many differing ‘expert’ opinions would be expressed—a mirror of the ‘ritual dance’ of experts in court perhaps—but not so predictable that the papers should be so clearly expressed and mostly rigorous as they were, and that some degree of consensus should emerge. I shall attempt to summarize parts of the contributions and some of the suggestions made for change.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 9 , Issue 12 , December 1985 , pp. 245 - 246
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