Environmental health practitioner turned forensic pathologist. Co-author of 'Simpson's Forensic Medicine'. Educational website https://nitter.gq/t.co/VUUrz41Fey
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ALT Gone are the days when a football helmet consisted of a simple rigid shell lined with foam padding. Instead, new materials, designs, and technologies enable a modern helmet to flex and deform. Tests that mimic real head blows show the new features help absorb energy and limit potentially damaging accelerations within the brain.
ALT Homicide offences. We have published a consultation paper on reforms to the law relating to homicide.
ALT The consultation is open until 30 September 2026. We would like to hear from anyone with an interest or awareness in this area of law.
ALT Quote: Homicide offences in England and Wales have never been the object of a coherent and structured reform, and the law has not kept pace with what society now understands about culpability, domestic abuse and the consequences of dangerous conduct. This review offers a timely opportunity to modernise the law and to build a fairer and more proportionate framework that reflects the degrees of culpability of offenders." - Professor Penney Lewis, Commissioner for Criminal Law
ALT Key provisional proposals include… A division of murder into two degrees: first-degree murder (intention to kill) and second-degree murder (intention to cause serious injury). A new verdict of “murder with a partial defence” to replace the current verdict of (voluntary) manslaughter when the defendant killed with the intention to kill but a partial defence applies. A more coherent and principled reform of manslaughter offences to ensure that reckless manslaughter....
