[2012] EWCA Crim 281

The re-formulation of the statutory conditions for diminished responsibility within the Homicide Act 1957 s.2 had not been intended to reverse the well-established rule that voluntary acute intoxication, whether from alcohol or any other substance, was not capable of founding the partial defence of diminished responsibility.

CA (Crim Div) (Hughes LJ, Simon J, Lang J)

22/02/2012