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The Ganser Syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Allen A. Bartholomew
Allen A. Bartholomew*
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4 Adamson Street, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, 3084
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 124 , Issue 580 , March 1974 , pp. 316
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

References

1. Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act, 1964 s.4; for Victoria see R v. Presser 1958 V.R. 45.Google Scholar
2. See Crimes Act, 1958 s.393 for Victoria.Google Scholar
3. In Podola's case (1959) 43 C.A.R. 220 at 238 one reads “‘shall be insane …” contained in section 2 of the Act of 1800 have in many cases since 1800 been construed as including persons who are not insane within the McNaughton Rules, but who, by reason of some physical or mental condition cannot follow the proceedings at the trial and so cannot make a proper defence in those proceedings' (my italics).Google Scholar
4. Not reported but briefly commented upon in Bartholomew, A. A. (1962) Time for revision of M'Naughten Rules. Med. J. Aust., i, 382.Google Scholar
5. Not reported.Google Scholar
6. See Re Tait, 1963 V.R. 532; Tait v. R, 1963 V.R. 547.Google Scholar
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