Kenneth Parks, 23, drove 23 kilometers from his Pickering, Ontario home to his in-laws' residence in the early hours of May 24, 1987, fatally attacking his mother-in-law and injuring his father-in-law ...

This week the Supreme Court of Canada will hear appeals in two sensational murder cases that involved the defence of "automatism," where the perpetrators claimed they did not know what they were doing ...

Cases where people commit crimes while unconscious pose a unique challenge for the criminal justice system, legal experts say. Michael Jackson, head of the law department at the University of Hong ...

Automatism is essentially a legal defence, arguing that a person cannot be held responsible for their actions because they had no conscious knowledge of them. There are two types of the condition: ...

Access to justice for all. This is one of the core tenets of our justice system. A system that guarantees both equal access to justice and equality before the law. Did you know with a Digital ...

REM guitarist Peter Buck, who has been acquitted of attacking BA staff on a transatlantic flight to London, claimed that he had no recollection of assaulting staff or ransacking the first-class cabin.

An elderly motorist who killed a married couple in a high-speed crash was controversially cleared of blame by a judge after claiming he may have been in a state of 'automatism' at the time. Experts ...