Ceylon Sessional PapersGovernment Press, 1959 - Sri Lanka |
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Popular passages
Page 89 - ... A person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct as a result of mental disease or defect...
Page 88 - The Jury must be satisfied that at the time of committing the prohibited act the defendant, as a result of mental disease or defect, lacked substantial capacity to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law which he is alleged to have violated.
Page 110 - Where a person kills or is a party to the killing of another, he shall not be convicted of murder if he was suffering from such abnormality of mind (whether arising from a condition of arrested or retarded development of mind or any inherent causes or induced by disease or injury) as substantially impaired his mental responsibility for his acts and omissions in doing or being a party to the killing.
Page 89 - It is simply that an accused is not criminally responsible if his unlawful act was the product of mental disease or mental defect.
Page 243 - Sabaragamuwa * (3) Subject to the provisions of subsections (4) and (5) of this section, each electoral district of a province shall have as nearly as may be an equal number of persons...
Page 89 - We find that as an exclusive criterion the right-wrong test is inadequate in that (a) it does not take sufficient account of psychic realities and scientific knowledge, and (b) it is based upon one symptom and so cannot validly be applied in all circumstances. We find that the "irresistible impulse...
Page 9 - Before serving on the Royal Commission I, like most other people, had given no great thought to the problem. If I had been asked for my opinion, I should probably have said that I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads.
Page 7 - Where it appears to the Delimitation Commission that there is in any area of a Province a substantial concentration of persons united by a community of interest, whether racial, religious or otherwise, but differing in one or more of these respects from the majority of the inhabitants of that area, the Commission may make such division of the Province into electoral districts as may be necessary to render possible the representation of that interest.
Page 328 - Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of the Most...
Page 138 - Any person who acts in contravention of this section shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds, and the said place of profit and his office as member or manager shall be vacant.