Law of Murder and Voluntary Manslaughter: A Case Study

Law

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
ISSUE..........................................................................................................................................3
LAW............................................................................................................................................3
APPLICATION..........................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
The English criminal law is related with the wrong against the whole community or the
private individual (Herring, 2014). This study will focus on the case scenario of Alice where they
in turn tends to highly focus on loss of control and diminished responsibility with voluntary
manslaughter. ILAC rule will be applied to critically evaluate the scenario and attain valid
conclusive points.
MAIN BODY
ISSUE
The key prominent issue associated with the specific case study is that, Alice was an
alcoholic and has been suffering from severe depression. She has been chopping wood one fine
day in the back garden. Brut, the partner of Alice cam home and told her that, he has been at the
the pub and had intimate moment with Mandy. Alice is highly frightened of her husband because
he tends to beat her whenever Brut was drunk. But as this scenario happened, Alice rushed close
to Brut and hit him on the head hard around 20 times with the chopper. Subsequently, Brut has
fallen down to the ground and has died at the very moment. Alice has gone to find Mandy. Alice
found her and said that, I will teach you a lesson. For which Mandy replied that, “I am not afraid
of you. You re a pathetic old drunkard.” Amidst that, Alice has pulled the hammer from her
pocket and hit the Mandy head twice which eventually resulted in the death of the Mandy
because of the fractured skull.
LAW
Criminal Law
The English criminal law tends to mainly associate with the key concerns related with the
offences, consequence and prevention within the England and Wales (Ashworth, and Horder,
2013). Criminal conduct is highly associated with the wrong against the whole community or the
private individual. Criminal conduct has been carried out and which is considered to be wrongful
in the eyes of the law. The key elements which is mainly associated with the Criminal law UK
are:
Actus reus: It is a Latin word and is referred to as the guilty act and the key physical
element which is associated with the committing of the crime. It is considered to be as illegal
action which has been taken by the defendant in order cause any kind of harm to the other
individual person. Actus reus mainly comprises of conduct, results, state of affairs and omission.