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REFORMING THE INSANITY DEFENCE IN IRELAND TO COMPLY WITH THE CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.
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It supplies a worked alternative to abolitionist CRPD readings that a forensic psychiatrist may encounter in international policy debate, and reframes the volitional limb as a question of choice-generation rather than irresistible impulse — a formulation that would change what an evaluator is asked to opine on if ever adopted. Nothing changes in current Irish or other practice: no rule, obligation, or evidentiary standard is altered by this article.