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Voluntary Intoxication is defined ' to mean intoxication resulting from the intentional taking of drink or a drug knowing that it is capable in sufficient quantity of having an intoxicating effect1.' Thus aiding the loosening of inhibitions and increasing a persons confidence. In the Law Commission Report No 229, it described ' the law... complicated and difficult to explain.' A basic problem exists that if intoxication is sufficiently severe it may negate the mens rea of an act. (Criminal Law: lecture handout) However in Attorney General for Northern Ireland v Gallagher2, Lord Denning stated that, If a man, whilst sane and sober, forms an intention to kill and makes preparation for it....and then gets himself drunk so as to give himself Dutch courage to do killing, and whilst drunk carries out his intention, he cannot rely on this self-induced drunkenness as a defence to a charge of murder. Ashworth, stated in Principles...

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