Law Commission consultation on homicide offences

Closes 30 Sep 2026

Contents

These consultation questions are organised by the chapter in the consultation paper that they arise from. Please note that not every chapter contained a consultation question. You may wish to refer back to the relevant chapters for the details of our proposals as you respond.

There are 23 questions from the consultation paper in total. You can choose to answer as many or as few of the questions as you like. Where a question has more than one part you can choose to answer as many or as few of the parts as you like.

There is an additional consultation question at the end for you to include any additional comments that you would like us to consider that have not been addressed in any of the previous questions.

Page Response
About you (Required)
0 of 6 questions answered
Chapter 4: A new homicide structure
0 of 1 questions answered
Chapter 5: First-degree murder
0 of 1 questions answered
Chapter 6: Second-degree murder
0 of 1 questions answered
Chapter 7: The role of partial defences
0 of 2 questions answered
Chapter 8: Manslaughter
0 of 6 questions answered
Chapter 9: Infanticide
0 of 1 questions answered
Chapter 10: Other homicide offences
0 of 4 questions answered
Chapter 11: "Mercy" and consensual killings
0 of 1 questions answered
Chapter 13: Attempted murder
0 of 2 questions answered
Chapter 14: Victims of domestic abuse and homicide
0 of 2 questions answered
Chapter 15: Equality impact
0 of 1 questions answered
Additional comments
0 of 1 questions answered
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