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diminished responsibilityexpert evidencejury directions
HKSAR v Kissel Nancy Ann
[2013] HKCA 622
Key Principle
On a murder retrial where diminished responsibility is in issue, an expert witness may not simply reproduce and adopt the opinion of a non-testifying expert prepared for the litigation, and the trial judge's directions on the expert and circumstantial evidence were not shown to be erroneous.
Area of Law
criminal
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