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R v Hannah Cobley

Author / Contributor: Kris Gledhill
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R v Hannah Cobley
   
Issue: Whether fresh expert evidence from both defence and prosecution psychiatrists that a woman convicted or murdering her just-born child should have been convicted of manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility was admissible; the approach to such fresh evidence.
   
Court: Court of Appeal
   
Reference:   2020/01696/B5
   
Neutral Citation:   [2021] EWCA Crim 954
   
Judge(s): Macur LJ, Jay and Foster JJ
   
Date: 44376