New clause 22 - Definition of manslaughter
Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill [Lords]
4:30 pm
Mr David Heath (Shadow Minister (Home Affairs), Home Affairs; Somerton and Frome, Liberal Democrat)
Is there not a further complication in British law: the mandatory sentence for murder? If we took a different view of the appropriateness of the mandatory sentence, we might not need those partial defences and someone could be sentenced appropriately for unlawful killing—murder—taking account of the circumstances.