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This article is relevant to AQA A-level Paper 1 and OCR A-level Component 1 (legal system and criminal law).
Section 2 of the Homicide Act 1957 created a special and partial defence to murder where a killing resulted from provocation that caused a loss of self-control. The loss of control had to be sudden and temporary, and it had to be established that a reasonable person would have done the same as the defendant did.
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