The Weekly Law Reports
[2006] 2 WLR 887
Court of Appeal
Regina
v
James
Regina
v
Karimi
[2006] EWCA Crim 14
2005 Dec 19;
2006 Jan 25
2006 Jan 25
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers CJ, Sir Igor Judge P, Poole, Bean and Dobbs JJ
Crime
— Homicide
— Provocation
— Loss of self-control
— Defendant suffering from impaired self-control
— Whether characteristic to be attributed to reasonable man in determining standard of self-control to be expected
Judicial precedent
— House of Lords decision
— Conflict of authority
— Judicial Committee of Privy Council composed of nine members
— Whether Privy Council decision effectively overruling earlier House of Lords decision