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Enacted Seanad
No. 44 of 2002

Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002

Public bill · Government · Presented

Updates the rules for people with mental disorders who are charged with crimes, including clearer tests for fitness to stand trial and insanity. It replaces “guilty but insane” with “not guilty by reason of insanity”, introduces reduced responsibility for murder, and creates an independent Mental Health Review Board to regularly review detention and decide when release is appropriate.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to amend the law relating to the trial and detention of persons suffering from mental disorders who are charged with offences or found not guilty by reason of insanity, to amend the law relating to unfitness to plead and the special verdict, to provide for the committal of such persons to designated centres and for the independent review of the detention of such persons and, for those purposes, to provide for the establishment of a Mental Health Review Board, to repeal the Trial of Lunatics Act, 1883, and to provide for related matters

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Last updated 12 April 2018

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  • Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Seanad
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages.
    Seanad
  • Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage.
    Dáil
  • Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages.
    Dáil
  • Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed).
    Dáil
  • Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002 [Seanad]: Referral to Select Committee.
    Dáil
  • Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002 [Seanad]: Second Stage.
    Dáil
  • Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages.
    Seanad
  • Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Committee Stage (Resumed).
    Seanad
  • Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Committee Stage.
    Seanad
  • Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Committee Stage (Resumed).
    Seanad
  • Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Order for Second Stage.
    Seanad
  • Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Second Stage.
    Seanad
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