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Insanity - Coggle Diagram

- - - - fitness for court decided by judge
        
        if not fit trial postpone until you are healthy enough
  - - - evidence of mental state by psyhologist
        
        accused person suffering from mental disorder at time
        
        due to mental disorder did not know nature and quality of act - did not know what they were doing was wrong, unable to regrain from committing crime
    - - suffering under mental health act 2001, committed to designated centre - up to 14 days 0 examined by medical officer - stay can be extnded - 6 months - approved medical officer appear before court saying patient mental diorder and needs patient care or treatment - if court satisfied suffering and in need of care - person committed until s13 order
      - s13 order now done by mental health review board - replaced executive who made decision
      - R vTurner psychiatric evidence only permissible if outside normal scope and experience of ordinary people
      - DPP v O;Mahony burden on accused to prove on balance of probability was present when external eleemnt of crime took place