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In R v Burgess [1991] 2 QB 92 the Court of Appeal ruled that the defendant, who wounded a woman by hitting her with a video recorder while sleepwalking, was insane under the M'Naghten Rules. Lord Lane said, "We accept that sleep is a normal condition, but the evidence in the instant case indicates that sleepwalking, and particularly violence in ...
There is disagreement over how M'Naghten's name should be spelt (Mc or M' at the beginning, au or a in the middle, a, e, o or u at the end). M'Naghten is favoured in both English and American law reports, although the original trial report used M'Naughton; Bethlem and Broadmoor records use McNaughton and McNaughten. [2]
Edward Drummond (30 March 1792 – 25 January 1843) was a British civil servant, and was Personal Secretary to several British prime ministers.He was fatally shot by Daniel M'Naghten, whose subsequent trial gave rise to the M'Naghten rules, the legal test of insanity used in many common law jurisdictions.
Secondly, the M'Naghten Rules page is a technical law page and it would disrupt the flow of legal content to interpolate historical and other material irrelevant to the the law. David91 04:30, 14 March 2006 (UTC) [ reply ]
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R Ormrod 1977 The McNaughton case and its predecessors. In DJ West and A Walk (eds.) Daniel McNaughton: his trial and the aftermath. London: Gaskell Books, 4–11; RG Thorne 2006 Erskine, Hon. Thomas in RG Thorne (ed.) The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1790–1820 volume iii, Members A-F: 710–13.
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Small business owners should not forget about a rule — currently in legal limbo — that would require them to register with an agency called the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN ...