Time to act - provocation must be rejected as an excuse for murder

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posted on 2013-02-20, 00:00 authored by Kate Fitz-Gibbon

This opinion piece provides an argument for why the Select Committee of the New South Wales Parliamentary Inquiry into the partial defence of provocation should reccomend abolition of this controversial partial defene to murder.

History

Source title

The Sydney morning herald

Pagination

11 - 11

Publisher

Fairfax Publishing

Place of publication

Sydney, N.S.W.

ISSN

0312-6315

Language

eng

Publication classification

M Media article

Copyright notice

2013, Fairfax Publishing

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Keywords

Partial defence of provocation homicide law reform murder manslaughter intimate partner homicide