Resources - The Perinatal Legal Project

Legislation

The Infanticide Act 1938

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/1-2/36/section/1

Cases

R v Kai-Whitewind [2005] EWCA Crim 1092

Guidance

CPS Guidance: “Homicide: Murder, manslaughter, infanticide and causing or allowing the death or serious injury of a child or vulnerable adult” (Updated June 2024)

https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/homicide-murder-manslaughter-infanticide-and-causing-or-allowing-death-or-serious

Video on Vulnerable Women, Crisis Pregnancies and the Criminal Justice System

https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/law/research/policy-engagement/women-pregnancy-criminal-law

Reports

“The Law of Infanticide: A Preliminary Review of the UK Infanticide Act 1938,” Cambridge Pro-Bono Project, (2024)

https://www.cpp.law.cam.ac.uk/projects/2023-2024

“Insanity and Automatism”, The Law Commission, (2013)

https://lawcom.gov.uk/project/insanity-and-automatism/

“Murder, Manslaughter and Infanticide”, The Law Commission, (2006)

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c5196e5274a1b00422f5c/0030.pdf

Articles

“An update on the law of infanticide: a review of cases over the past 20 years by the Cambridge Pro-Bono Project”, Karlia Lykourgou, Doughty Street Chambers, (October 2024)

https://insights.doughtystreet.co.uk/post/102jl6z/an-update-on-the-law-of-infanticide-a-review-of-cases-over-the-past-20-years-by

“Mothers who kill: A look at infanticide”, Karlia Lykourgou, Doughty Street Chambers, (October 2023)

https://insights.doughtystreet.co.uk/post/102ipk5/mothers-who-kill-a-look-at-infanticide

“Pregnancy Denial: Toward a New Understanding of the Underlying Mechanisms”, Chechko, Losse, Nehls, (2023)

“Experiences and perspectives of women who have committed neonaticide, infanticide and filicide: A systematic review and quantitative evidence synthesis”, Milia, Noonan, (2002)

Books