Acquitted but Denied: Insanity, Illegality and the Supreme Court in Lewis-Ranwell v G4S and others. Part 2: The Patel Assessment: The Inevitable Conclusion

Laleng, Per (2026) Acquitted but Denied: Insanity, Illegality and the Supreme Court in Lewis-Ranwell v G4S and others. Part 2: The Patel Assessment: The Inevitable Conclusion. Countercurrents: Critical Law at Kent, . (Unpublished) (KAR id:114843)

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Abstract

Part 2 of this article critically analyses the application of the Patel in the Supreme Court's decision in Lewis-Ranwell. It argues that the conclusion reached by the Court was inevitable because the Court continued a process started in the earlier case of Henderson: rebuilding the Patel test to the extent that the conclusion became inevitable.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled keywords:	Tort Law, Illegality Defence, Patel v Mirza
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General) K Law > KD England and Wales
Institutional Unit:	Schools > Kent Law School
Former Institutional Unit:	There are no former institutional units.
Funders:	University of Kent (https://ror.org/00xkeyj56)
Depositing User:	Per Laleng
Date Deposited:	12 May 2026 14:55 UTC
Last Modified:	12 May 2026 14:55 UTC
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/114843 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Laleng, Per.

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