... that if the accused is found to have intended either to kill or to cause serious bodily harm (GBH), which resulted in the death of the victim, and then he/she will be charged with murder, except if he/she has a special defence of either of the two different types of manslaughter. The manslaughter is divided into two different types: 1. Voluntary Manslaughter - is about some special (partial) defences4 available to the defendant to prove that what s/he did was under some circumstances where they shouldn't be charged with murder. If prove successful then the defendant charged with manslaughter not murder. The only difference is that if charged with murder the accused gets a mandatory life sentence, and if charged with manslaughter, the accused will not be given the mandatory life sentence, but is then left up to the trial judge's discretion to decide a sentence for this acts done. 2. ...

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