For two of the three UK legal jurisdictions (England & Wales; and Northern Ireland) section 54 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 provides that Loss of Control is a partial defence to Murder (intentional killing of a person in peacetime while sane) that may downgrade that charge to Voluntary Manslaughter (…while temporarily insane), subsection (1)b referring to a “qualifying trigger”, defined in the next section:
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For two of the three UK legal jurisdictions (England & Wales; and Northern Ireland) section 54 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 provides that Loss of Control is a partial defence to Murder (intentional killing of a person in peacetime while sane) that may downgrade that charge to Voluntary Manslaughter (…while temporarily insane), subsection (1)b referring to a “qualifying trigger”, defined in the next section: