Insanity & Automaatism

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Clues

  • "not guilty by reason of insanity". Left under control of the court. (7, 7)
  • Automatism is not available is D's mind is functioning, even though imperfectly. (5, 4, 2, 7)
  • Covers any internal disease, which results in violence and is likely to recur. (7, 2, 3, 4)
  • D's defence of "driving without awareness" failed as D had some control. (3, 9)
  • Deals with insanity in the legal sense. (8, 5)
  • Diabetic driver. convicted of driving without due care and attention, had some control of the car(braking and swerving) (6, 1, 7)
  • Effect of automatism. (8, 7)
  • Forming mens rea will not lead to a defence as in Bell. (6, 9)
  • powers of reasoning must be impaired and not confusion or absent-mindedness. (6, 2, 6)
  • The loss of control must be caused by an... (8, 6)

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