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: ...

Cases where people commit crimes while unconscious pose a unique challenge for the criminal justice system, legal experts say. Michael Jackson, head of the law department at the University of Hong ...

This week the Supreme Court of Canada will hear appeals in two sensational murder cases that involved the defence of "automatism," where the perpetrators claimed they did not know what they were doing ...

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 ...

This page lists all known medications that could potentially lead to 'Automatism' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications. The medication(s) ...

2:00 Canada’s Supreme Court rules voluntary extreme intoxication is a defence Rulings issued Friday by the Supreme Court of Canada to permit extreme intoxication as a legal defence in assault cases ...

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, lead ...

The automatism concept often creeps into trials, when it does, after a man has gotten high on something or other (typically not alcohol) and done something horrifying and brutal to a woman You can ...

Access to justice for all. This is one of the core tenets of our justice system. A system that guarantees both equal access to justice and equality before the law. Did you know with a Digital ...

A recent ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada states that being intoxicated to the state of automatism can be used as a defence, but they are calling on Parliament to act and re-write the law. The ...