title: Mens rea for a traffic breach successfully sustained on medical evidence.
abstract: A case is described in which a patient was accused of a serious breach of the Traffic Act and in which, on medical evidence, he was found to be in a state of dissociation and ataractic, which led to successful defence of mens rea.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000647:Amnesia; D001315:Australia; D001334:Automobile Driving; D004213:Dissociative Disorders; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D000091402:Prohibitins