R v Verdins; R v Buckley; R v Vo

• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Sentencing
  3. › Mental impairment and sentencing
  4. › Relevance of impaired mental functioning to sentencing
  5. › Whether Tsiaras principles limited to 'serious psychiatric illness not amounting to mental insanity'
  6. › Restatement of guiding principles
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Sentencing
  3. › Mental impairment and sentencing
  4. › General deterrence
  5. › Whether general deterrence excluded or merely moderated where offender suffers impaired mental functioning
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Sentencing
  3. › Mental impairment and sentencing
  4. › Moral culpability
  5. › Whether and to what extent impaired mental functioning may reduce moral culpability of offending conduct
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Sentencing
  3. › Mental impairment and sentencing
  4. › Impact of imprisonment on mentally ill offender
  5. › Whether relevant that imprisonment would carry serious risk of significant adverse effect on offender's mental health

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