Harvard Law School
Evidence law involves which supplies are admissible in courts for a case to be constructed. In exceptional circumstances defences can apply to specific acts, similar to killing in self defence, or pleading insanity. Another instance is within the 19th-century English case of R v Dudley and Stephens, which tested a defence of “necessity”. Three crew members and Richard Parker, a 17-year-old cabin boy, were stranded on a raft. They argued it was essential to kill the cabin boy to preserve their own lives. There have been several makes an attempt to supply “a universally acceptable definition of …