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Diminished responsibility in Scotland: new technology and old legal definitions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Mary Stewart
Mary Stewart*
Affiliation:
Whyteman's Brae, Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy KY2 5AH
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The following recent murder trial at a Scottish High Court raises some points of interest to all UK psychiatrists in relation to the use of brain imaging test results as psychiatric evidence and their relevance to the question of diminished responsibility. It should be noted that in Scotland diminished responsibility has a much narrower scope than that encountered in the England and Wales (Chiswick, 1991) and is dependent upon the presence of a “mental disorder or a mental illness or disease” (Connelly v HMA 1990).

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Psychiatry and the law
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 17 , Issue 8 , August 1993 , pp. 484 - 486
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