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Insanity and Automatism ✅ Flashcards

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1
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What is automatism?

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The body acting without control of the mind

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What is insane automatism?

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Insanity

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What is sane automatism?

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Automatism

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How does the defence of insanity work?

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Full defence against a number of crimes, however not murder or attempted murder

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What would the verdict of a case be if they were found to be insane?

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“Not guilty by reason of insanity”

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What did the sentence of a judge have to be before 1991?

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D had to be sent to a mental hospital

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What options does a judge have after the criminal procedure, insanity and fitness to pleads, act 1991 was passed?

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  • hospital order (with or without restrictions)
  • supervision order
  • an absolute discharge
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Why is insanity not used for murder?

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Would use diminished responsibility instead

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Why is insanity not available for strict liability offences?

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Insanity is a defence that looks at the mens rea

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What is the definition of insanity?

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The defendant must be labouring under such a defect of reason, from a disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality the act he was doing, or if he didn’t know it, then he did not know what he was doing wrong

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What is meant by a defect of reason?

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  • legal definition, not medical
  • power of reasoning must be impaired
  • if the defendant is capable of reasoning, then it is not a defect of reason
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What is the significance of R v Clarke?

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If the defendant is capable of reasoning then it is not a defect of reason

(Absent mindedness is not a defect of reason)

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What is the significance of R v Sullivan?

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Does not matter if the defect is temporary or permanent

(Epilepsy)

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What is meant by the disease of the mind?

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  • legal definition, not medical
  • a malfunctioning of the mind
  • can be due to a mental or physical reason
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What is the significance of R v Kemp?

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A physical cause can amount to a disease of the mind

(Hardening of the arteries)

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What is the significance of R v Hennessy?

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Diabetes can be a disease affecting the mind

(D hadn’t taken insulin for days and stole a car)

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What is the significance of R v Burgees?

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Sleepwalking can be a disease of the mind if it’s due to a sleep disorder

( if due to an external cause, not insanity but automatism)

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What is the significance of R v Quick?

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Insulin for a diabetic is an external factor, so would be automatism if due to an excess amount of insulin

19
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What is the significance of R v Coley?

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Psychotic episode induced by drugs - automatism

20
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What are the two potential options when talking about the nature of the act and knowing it’s wrong?

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  1. Because D is unconscious or in an impaired state of consciousness
  2. Conscious but due to a medical condition, didn’t know it was wrong
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What is the significance of R v Oye?

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Did not understand the nature of the act and that what he was doing was wrong

22
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What is the significance of R v Windle?

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Said “I suppose they will hang me for this” showed he knew what he was doing was wrong and therefore not insanity

23
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What is the significance of R v Johnson?

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Schizophrenic - however experts said he knew what he was doing was wrong and therefore not insanity

24
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What is the definition of automatism? Bratty v Att Gen for NI

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An act done by the muscles without any control of the mind, such as a spasm, a convulsion or a reflex action; or an act done by a person who is not conscious of what he is doing, such as an act done by suffering from concussion or whilst sleepwalking

25
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What would an internal factor amount to?

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Insanity

26
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What would an external factor amount to?

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Automatism

27
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What would the verdict for insanity be?

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Not guilty by reason of insanity

28
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What would the verdict for automatism be?

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Not guilty

29
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What are examples of external factors?

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  • blow to the head
  • swarm of bees
  • hypnotism
  • effect of a drug e.g Valium
  • PTSD
30
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What is the significance of Hill v Baxter?

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No fault when in an autonomic state due to an external cause

31
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What is the significance of Kay v Butterworth?

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A person should not be made guilty at the criminal law who, by no fault of his own, becomes unconscious when driving as, for example has been struck by a sudden stone or overcome by a sudden illness

32
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What is the significance of R v T

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Judge allowed PTSD as an external cause for a defence of automatism

33
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What is the significance of AGR number 2 of 1992 (1993)

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Reduced to partial control of actions is sufficient to constitute

34
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What is meant by self induced automatism?

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Where the defendant knows likely to bring on an autonomic state

35
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What is meant by specific intent?

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Offences where the MR is for specific intent - must be intent only

36
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What happens if the defendant is charged with an offence of only specific intent?

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Only automatism can be used

37
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What is meant by basic intent?

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Offences where recklessness is sufficient for the MR (manslaughter, assault, battery)

38
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What is the verdict is D brought about the act by recklessness

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D may not use automatism if he has brought about the autonomic state by recklessness

39
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What is the significance of R v Majewski?

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Becoming voluntarily intoxicated is reckless course of conduct

40
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What is the significance of R v Bailey?

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Recklessness - didn’t eat enough after taking insulin

41
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What is the significance of R v Hardie?

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Not reckless to an autonomic state as he thought the reaction to the drugs would have a calming effect

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