1) Legal significance of an extreme drunkenness defence:What is the impact that a law, court decision or legal principle has on the lives of citizens or existing legal structures? Why is this issue important or not important? So, what is the impact of excusing criminal actions due to extreme drunkenness?

2) Continuity and Change involved in extreme drunkenness defence:How and why laws change, and the short and long term effects of those changes. What is producing or forcing the change? How would this change the face of society and criminal defences? Do people need the assistance of law to further protect them in areas not currently already protected by written law?