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 ...

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 ...

Automatism is a state where someone commits an act without intending to do so, or without being aware of their conduct. In legal parlance, it is often considered where an individual’s contact with ...

The concept of insurance can be traced back to the Roman Empire where, under maritime law, shippers took out insurance to protect themselves against the risk of losing their vessels to stormy seas, ...

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 ...

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 ...

2:00 Canada’s Supreme Court rules voluntary extreme intoxication is a defence Justice Minister David Lametti is facing calls to act after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled defendants in violent ...

A law prohibiting an accused from using extreme intoxication to the point of automatism as a defence against crimes involving assault or interference with the bodily integrity of another person is ...