Principles, Pragmatism and the Law Commission's Recommendations on Homicide Law Reform.

The article focuses on the structure of second degree murder and the proper place of partial defenses. It examines some of the broader issues of structure and approach raised by the final report on "Murder, Manslaughter and Infanticide," released by Great Britain's Law Commission. It provides a comparison between the category of murder 2 and the second head of murder 1. It details the three-tier structure for the law of homicide recommended by the Law Commission.