Attorney General's Reference No. 95 of 2009 (Blight)

THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND AND WALES (Lord Judge) MR JUSTICE SIMON and MR JUSTICE ROYCE ____________________

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Miss M Nelson appeared on behalf of the Attorney General Mr C J Knox appeared on behalf of the Offender/Appellant ____________________

"insofar as there was or is an acceptance of an intent to do really serious bodily injury on the part of the [offender], it was an intent formed in the most anguishing of circumstances. It is one thing to form an intent to do someone serious harm when you are the aggressor from the beginning, or with a cool head, but it is another thing entirely when you have been subjected to this sort of thing".