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PRESIDENT OF THE QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION THE HONOURABLE MRS JUSTICE DOBBS ____________________
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James Badenoch QC and Matthew Barnes (instructed by Withy King, Solicitors) for the Claimant Hugh Mercer QC (instructed by Bristol City Council, Solicitors) for the Defendant Mr Gareth Patterson and Victoria Ailes (instructed by Lovells, Solicitors)-for the Intervener) Hearing date: 1 April 2009 ____________________
This implies, and the law is, that the burden of establishing insanity in a criminal trial is on the defence on the balance of probabilities � see for example Sullivan at page 171A.
There is an account of his prescribed drugs and of an attempted suicide on 1 st September 2006. After other observations, Professor Nestoros concluded:
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