LAWS 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Irresistible Impulse
16 Mar 2016
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Diminish response is a type of offence that is not available in canada-it is a statutory defence and let"s you know if an action was planned or premeditated. When you can"t provide documents stating someone is suffering from a mental defect you cannot prove he is actually suffering from an illness. Sexual offences-sexual is not the definition in the criminal code,it exist only in the interpretation of the criminal code. Eg: r. v. chase-in this case they rejected what the court of news brunswick considered sexual. according to the court,sexual acts involve touching the sexual organs and raping. If any form of punishment is seen as abuse under the charter,the supreme court has every right to punish the parent. it is seen as a crime. Under section 2,you cannot deliver correction to a child. From the time a child is 2 you can commit mind correction towards a child right until they turn 13.
