The case: The applicant was born on 25 February 2007. He has just passed his fifteenth birthday. In July 2021 he, together with another boy of similar age, was convicted of one count of murder. 

Grounds of appeal: (1) the judge erred in ruling that psychiatric evidence relating to the applicant's diagnosis of Asperger's/ASD was not admissible to the issue of intent; (2) the judge erred in ruling that the served psychiatric evidence was inadmissible as to the first limb of self-defence; (3) the judge erred in not granting an adjournment for the defence to obtain a further report from the instructed psychiatrist.

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