Current issues in mental health in Canada : Questions d'actualité en santé mentale au Canada : la santé mentale et le système de justice pénale

In its answers, the House of Lords stated: In all cases of this kind the jurors ought to be told that every man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction; and that to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that at the time of committing the act the [...] In June 2002, in its report entitled Review of the Mental Disorder Provisions of the Criminal Code, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights pointed out the lack of data on the numbers LIBRARY OF PARLIAMENT 2 PUBLICATION NO. [...] The resulting report provided information on the nature of the cases that had been processed through the Review Board systems between 1992 and 2004.14 Moreover, a report submitted to the Research and Statistics Division of Justice Canada in 2013 analyzed the cases of individuals found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder who had been accused of serious offences involving violen [...] The court and the parties will be kept apprised of the mental condition of the accused throughout the process. [...] The sheer scale of the mental health needs of those held in federal penitentiaries has been highlighted repeatedly by the Office of the Correctional Investigator.21 Thirteen percent of male inmates and 29% of female inmates in federal institutions have been identified at admission as presenting mental health problems.