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 ...

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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 ...

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 Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa pictured in May 2021. (Jolson Lim/iPolitics) In unanimous groundbreaking decisions Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down an almost 30-year-old law that ...

OTTAWA - Canada’s highest court has ruled that the law barring the use of automatism⁠, or a state of extreme intoxication, as a defence for some crimes is unconstitutional and called on Parliament to ...

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