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R v Brewer (No. 2) [2015] NSWSC 1547 — Offences & Legal Practitioners — Barrister AI

R v Brewer (No. 2)

[2015] NSWSC 1547

Supreme Court of NSW

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Catchwords

1. Criminal Law
2. › Offences
3. › Murder
4. › Where accused charged with murder
5. › Where psychiatrists qualified on behalf of the Crown and the accused each expressed the view that a defence of mental illness was available
6. › Accused found not guilty on the grounds of mental illness
1. Practice and Procedure
2. › Legal practitioners
3. › Duties and responsibilities of counsel
4. › Where medical evidence established the availability of a defence of mental illness
5. › Where the accused asserted in evidence that he was not mentally ill
6. › Where the accused had instructed his Counsel not to pursue a defence of mental illness
7. › Where defence was raised on the evidence
8. › Responsibility of the Court to consider the issue

Case Details

Citation[2015] NSWSC 1547

CourtNSWSC

JurisdictionNew South Wales

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