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- Title
Mad or Bad? ‘Appreciating’ Insanity Scott Henry Sneddon MacKay v Her Majesty’s Advocate [2017] HCJAC 44.
- Authors
Stuart-Cole, Elizabeth
- Abstract
The article presents the lawsuit Sneddon MacKay v. Her Majesty's Advocate. On September 20, 2015, MacKay phoned emergency services declaring he was armed with a machete and pyrotechnics and threatening violence and death towards Muslims. There was no dispute that he had made an abusive 999 call, stating that he was in close proximity to a Tandoori takeaway shop in Rosyth, Scotland.
- Subjects
ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); LEGAL procedure; TRIAL practice; INSANITY (Law); PEOPLE with mental illness
- Publication
Journal of Criminal Law, 2017, Vol 81, Issue 5, p352
- ISSN
0022-0183
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0022018317735732