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February 19, 2010	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 24, 2010.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the principles of insanity in English law have been described as based on a "now obsolete" belief and "not therefore a satisfactory test of criminal responsibility"?

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Several inaccuracies

There are several inaccuracies on a cursory reading of this article. The history is incorrect, and the origin of the MacNaughtan Rules is wrong. Also MacNaughtan's name is misspelled! It also misses out several developments in the law. Also Hadfield probably received his head wound at the battle of Lincelles Jack Hawkins legal academic & Times reader (talk) 18:57, 23 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed Reforms?

While there is a section dedicated to criticisms and attempted reforms there seems to literally no details of reforms other than the name i.e. The Butler Committee — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.49.220.177 (talk) 21:59, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]