United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 2425
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13 January 2020
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17 January 2020 · Answer
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17 January 2020
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of (a) the effectiveness of the law on automatism as a legal defence and (b) its role in miscarriages of justice.
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13 January 2020
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of (a) the effectiveness of the law on automatism as a legal defence and (b) its role in miscarriages of justice.
Source: Commons
17 January 2020
Answer
Automatism has developed as a defence under the common law for a long period of time and is a full defence to a criminal charge where the defendant’s consciousness was so impaired that they were acting in a state of physical involuntariness. The Governmen...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-01-13/2425
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1170241
- uk · wq-1170241 · source updated 17 January 2020