Clause 41
Coroners and Justice Bill
12:30 pm
Edward Garnier (Shadow Minister, Justice; Harborough, Conservative)
Surely, what the Minister is after is a description of the dominant motive—it is the dominant motive that amounts to revenge in her example. It is not a question of the desire for revenge being “considered”. It is the predominant motive that dominated the defendant’s state of mind at the time that they killed.