Georgia State Faculty Of Law

Evidence law involves which materials are admissible in courts for a case to be constructed. In exceptional circumstances defences can apply to specific acts, similar to killing in self defence, or pleading insanity. Another example is within the 19th-century English case of R v Dudley and Stephens, which examined a defence of “necessity”. Three crew members and Richard Parker, a 17-year-old cabin boy, had been stranded on a raft. They argued it was necessary to kill the cabin boy to protect their own lives. There have been several makes an attempt to provide “a universally …