| 单词 | M'Naghten rules |
| 释义 | M’Naghten規則 A set of rules that describes the defence of insanity in common law jurisdictions, deriving from M’Naghten’s case (1843) 10 C1 & Fin 200, 8 ER 718; R v Chan Tak Kwong [1997] 1 HKC 478. The rules provide the requirement for the common law defence of insanity that at the time of committing the act the accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, owing to disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality his or her act, or, if the accused did know it, he or she did not know that what he or she was doing was wrong. A temporary state of intoxication is not a disease of the mind: R v Quick [1973] QB 910. In respect of a person suffering insane delusions as to some peculiar fact but in other respects sane, he or she should be consider in the same situation as to responsibility as if the facts with respect to the delusion were real. See also Mens rea; Mental illness; Mental disease; Person not guilty by reason of insanity; Person unfit to be tried; Presumption of sanity. 一套在普通法司法管轄區內描述精神錯亂為抗辯理由的規則，而這套規則是來自M’Naghten的案件 (1843) 10 Cl & Fin 200, 8 ER 718；R v Chan Tak Kwong [1997] 1 HKC 478。該規則提供以精神錯亂為普通法抗護理由之要求為被控人在作出該行為時缺乏理性，並由於精神上的疾病以致不知道其行為性質及特質或如被控人知道其行為的性質及特質，但卻不知道其正在做的事情是錯誤的。短暫的昏醉狀態不是精神上的疾病：R v Quick [1973] QB 910；HKSAR v Tang Kwok Wa [2000] 603 HKCU 1。若果一個人因精神錯亂幻覺一些奇怪的事實，但其在其它方面是心智健全的，其在責任方面將被視作其處於猶如其所幻想的事實為真實的同樣處境。亦見 Mens rea; Mental illness; Mental disease; Person not guilty by reason of insanity; Person unfit to be tried; Presumption of sanity。 |
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