AUTOMATISM
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- AUTOMATISM
- Definition 'no act is punishable if it is done involuntarily - done by the muscles without any control of the mind, sich as a spasm, reflex or convulsion or and act done by a person who is not conscious of what he is doing such as an act done whilst sleepwalking or suffering from concussion (Denning in Bratty v Atorney General for N.I.)
- must be caused by external cause (must be extraordinary: Hennessy)
- physical causes
- Burns v Bidder: break failure
- Hill v Baxter: heart attack, driving
- Hypoglycaemia(Quick), Post traumatic stress syndrom:RvT, Carbon Monoxide poisoning(Ritchie), medically prescribed drugs(King), confusional arousal state(Lowe), epileptic fit(Cox v Ravlinson vs Sullivan)
- Hypoglycaemia = O for Outside source of too much insulin = Non-insane Hyperglycaemia = Hyper as in a sugar rush with no insulin to counteract it- Inside source of the condition of diabetes itself = insane.
- Hennessey: forgot to take medication due to stress, anxiety, depression: constitute a state that is prone to recur, lack the feature of novelty
- Quick: 'if it could reasonably have been foreseen you lose the defence': objective test
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- Hypoglycaemia = O for Outside source of too much insulin = Non-insane Hyperglycaemia = Hyper as in a sugar rush with no insulin to counteract it- Inside source of the condition of diabetes itself = insane.
- physical causes
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