R v Schoonwinkel
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r-v-schoonwinkel-297-4726575
title:
R v Schoonwinkel
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In R v Schoonwinkel, an important case in South African criminal law, particularly as it applies to the defence of automatism, the driver of a motor vehicle was charged with culpable homicide, having collided with and killed a passenger in another car. The accused had had an epileptic seizure at the time of the accident, rendering his mind a blank. The nature of his epilepsy was such that he would normally not have realised or foreseen the dangers of driving, having had only two previous minor a
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South African legal case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Schoonwinkel
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2022-06-06T14:01:52Z
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