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Commencement. 25 August 1883. Status: Amended. Revised text of statute as amended. The Trial of Lunatics Act 1883 ( 46 & 47 Vict. c. 38) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, allowing the jury to return a verdict that the defendant was guilty, but insane at the time, and should be kept in custody as a "criminal lunatic". [1]
Trial of Lunatics Act 1883. The Trial of Lunatics Act 1883 was the next development in the law, allowing the jury to return a verdict that the defendant was guilty, but insane at the time, and should be kept in custody as a "criminal lunatic". [14]
This section was repealed for England and Ireland, by section 4 of the Trial of Lunatics Act 1883 (46 & 47 Vict c 38); and for Scotland by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948.
The verdict prompted the Queen to ask for a change in English law so that those implicated in cases with similar outcomes would be considered as "guilty, but insane"; this led to the Trial of Lunatics Act 1883. A poem was later written about Maclean's attempt on the Queen's life by William Topaz McGonagall. References
25 August – Trial of Lunatics Act permits a criminal on trial to be found guilty but insane. 29 August – Dunfermline Carnegie Library, the first Carnegie library is opened in Andrew Carnegie 's hometown, Dunfermline. 11 September – Major Evelyn Baring becomes Consul-General of Egypt under British rule.
English: An Act to amend the form of the special verdict required by section 2 of the Trial of Lunatics Act 1883 and the procedure for determining whether an accused person is under a disability such as to constitute a bar to his being tried; to provide for an appeal against such a special verdict or a finding that the accused is under such a ...
Trial of Lunatics Act 1883: Case history; Prior action(s) Insanity found (and thus not guilty of offence) at Bristol Crown Court, before Judge Sir Ian Lewis and a jury (not reported) Subsequent action(s) None: Court membership; Judge(s) sitting: Lord Lane CJ, Roch J and Morland J: Keywords
John Thomas Perceval (14 February 1803 – 28 February 1876) was a British army officer who was confined in lunatic asylums for three years and spent the rest of his life campaigning for reform of the lunacy laws and for better treatment of asylum inmates.
1883 – The Trial of Lunatics Act 1883 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, allowing the jury to return a verdict that the defendant was guilty, but insane at the time, and should be kept in custody as a "criminal lunatic".
Hospitals in England. St Bernard's Hospital, also known as Hanwell Insane Asylum and the Hanwell Pauper and Lunatic Asylum, was an asylum built for the pauper insane, opening as the First Middlesex County Asylum in 1831. Some of the original buildings are now part of the headquarters for the West London Mental Health NHS Trust (WLMHT).