Defences

Question 1

Automatism

Answer 1

No conscious control over his or her body movement

Question 2

Consent

Answer 2

victim consented to the accused’s act

Question 3

Entrapment

Answer 3

Defense if accused was set up or trapped in committing a crime

Question 4

Intoxication

Answer 4

Generally not a defence. However can be used partially if intoxicated to form the necessary inter to knowingly carry out a specific crime

Question 5

Duress

Answer 5

• occurs at the moment of the crime
• accused has been compelled to act by threats of immediate bodily harm
• can’t be used in indictable offences

Question 6

Insanity

Answer 6

• suffer from impairment at the time of the crime
• a defense that a defendant can plead in a criminal trial

Question 7

Necessity

Answer 7

• ordinary person is compelled to break the law in an emergency situation
• like if person broke into building to save person from fire

Question 8

Mistake of fact/law

Answer 8

Accused believes that their actions are not criminal in the circumstance

Question 9

Self defence

Answer 9

accused must be under reasonable fear of death or bodily harm and accused must believe there was no other way to save himself