Monster or Victim? Lindsay Clancy - The Case that Split the Nation
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The Lindsay Clancy case has raised extraordinarily difficult questions about murder, criminal responsibility, mental illness and postpartum mental health. But how would a lawyer looking at the case from the UK approach those questions? In this video, I examine the Lindsay Clancy case from the perspective of an English barrister, looking at the allegations, the legal issues surrounding criminal responsibility and mental health, and the important differences between the US and UK criminal justice systems. Could similar circumstances produce a very different legal outcome in England and Wales? Where should the law draw the line between serious mental illness and criminal responsibility? And is our own law actually equipped to deal fairly with cases of this complexity? This is not simply about one American criminal case. It raises much bigger questions about murder, diminished responsibility, insanity, mental health and how the criminal law decides who should be held responsible for the
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