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The law has not yet reached a definition of intent in murder in terms of appreciation of virtual certainty’ and that there was ‘. . very little to choose between a rule of evidence and a rule of substantive law’ (Mathews and Alleyne at paras 43 and 45) particularly in this case where the appellants’ omission to rescue the victim reinforced the inference of their intention to kill. As a result of this decision (and indeed its predecessors, Nedrick and Woollin) juries have been provided with a ‘get-out clause’ whereby they may decide that although the defendant foresaw death as virtually certain, he or she did not intend it (Wilson 1999: 456).
Ashworth 1996: 192 and 182)25 In cases involving a ‘worthy’ or good motive, the courts have departed from the standard definition of intention and, in order to reflect a doctor’s good motive and his ‘status and role’ in society, have then invoked the relevant ‘medical’ defences (Tur 2002: 91). 28 While there is a conscious feeling that although the conclusions in these cases are exactly what we would desire them to be, the methods used to reach them are based on considerations such as social acceptability, motive, intuition, and the patient’s condition, none of which have anything at all to do with intention.
Of what you are about to do] . . is determined by the reasons for and against it’ (Rachels 1986: 95); intention does not come into your consideration of the reasons. Accordingly, labelling the actor’s mental state would not provide an absolute guide to the blameworthiness of his actions, but accounting for motive would. Admittedly, it does not explain whether a person acted intentionally or not, but it does explain why a person did what he did, and this can be used to assess a person’s character as being either ‘good’ or ‘bad’.