Why are families still struggling to obtain justice? One explanation for this is the use of automatism as a legal defence. Automatism is a defence that in essence involves claiming that the ...

Automatism is essentially a legal defence, arguing that a person cannot be held responsible for their actions because they had no conscious knowledge of them. There are two types of the condition: ...

I WAS surprised to see by Mr. Wallace's letter of last week that he and I had understood Prof. Huxley's address in senses entirely different I understood Prof. Huxley to mean that not only the ...

Following the decision in the highly publicised case involving Peter Buck of REM, Kevin Roberts discusses the implications for the use of automatism as a defence On 20 April 2001, Peter Buck ...

TORONTO — Canada’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that criminal defendants may argue that they were so intoxicated that they were in a state of automatism and therefore not responsible for some ...

The occurrence among us within the last few years of crimes of singular atrocity and wanton cruelty has called the attention of many thinking persons to the condition of mind under which such acts ...

Automatism or automatic behaviour was originally described in the Hippocratic corpus in relation to sleepwalking and other nocturnal behaviours. 1 Despite its long history, this area of automatism ...

He was found not guilty due to insanity and sent to a psychiatric hospital for an indefinite period of time. Jules Lowe was found not guilty on the basis of insane automatism Jules Lowe, 32, of ...

Two men from Cheltenham accused of smashing up a betting shop in the town have denied the charges, claiming they were suffering from 'automatism' due to a gambling addiction. Aaron Cawley, 26, claimed ...