{"id":43,"date":"2003-12-22T14:03:03","date_gmt":"2003-12-22T14:03:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-12-22T14:03:03","modified_gmt":"2003-12-22T14:03:03","slug":"r-v-rowland-2003-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"R v Rowland [2003] CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px\"><b><font face=Verdana size=2>[Provocation &#8211; the second element is a matter for the jury]<br \/><\/font><\/b><font face=Verdana size=2>D killed his wife with a carving knife following provocation.&nbsp; He was depressed about their marital failure and her taunting him.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><font face=Verdana size=2><b>Held:&nbsp; <\/b>A &#8220;characteristic&#8221; of the accused for the second element in provocation is all a matter for the jury.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><font face=Verdana size=2>Referring to the second element as objective is not helpful.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><font face=Verdana size=2>&#8220;The reasonable man is&nbsp; &#8230; best left lurking in the statutory undergrowth, lest his emergence should lead the jury down a false trail of reasoning en route to their verdict.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/font><font face=Verdana size=2>The reasonable man would not normally be expected to be endowed with the characteristics of the defendant.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><font face=Verdana size=2>The reasonable man test is diminished once it is clear that the application of the objective test is to be regarded exclusively as a matter for the jury.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><font face=Verdana size=2>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsboard.co.uk\/criminal_law\/index.htm\">Judicial Studies Board specimen direction<\/a> is an appropriate one &#8230; self-induced intoxication is no excuse.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><b><font face=Verdana size=2>Guilty of manslaughter not murder<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Provocation &#8211; the second element is a matter for the jury]D killed his wife with a carving knife following provocation.&nbsp; He was depressed about their marital failure and her taunting him. Held:&nbsp; A &#8220;characteristic&#8221; of the accused for the second element in provocation is all a matter for the jury. Referring to the second element [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}