Self Defence in UK Law
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Self-Defence, Defence and Pre-Emption
Military supporters and critics often find each others' positions on war preposterous. The divergent attitudes of these two groups may derive from their view about the analogy, or lack thereof, bet...
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Redrawing the Boundaries of Self‐Defence
Suzanne Uniacke, Permissible Killing: The Self‐Defence Justification for Homicide, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, ix + 244 pp, hb £35.00.
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Battered Women, Startled Householders and Psychological Self-Defence: Anglo-Australian Perspectives
This article provides a timely and critical reappraisal of the interconnected, but discrete, doctrines of loss of self-control, under ss 54–56 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, and self-defence...
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Proposals for Reforming the Law of Self-Defence
The English law of self-defence has attracted significant attention following the controversial decision of the Court of Appeal in R v Martin. At the heart of the controversy is the determination o...
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Rape, Resistance and Women's Rights of Self-Defence
The legal and criminal justice systems proceed on the masculinist assumption that a woman's body communicates her lack of consent to sexual intercourse and that a woman will offer strong physical r...
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Three Models of Democratic Self-Defence: Militant Democracy and Its Alternatives
Militant democracy relies on the idea that democracies ought to defend themselves from anti-democratic forces by constitutionalising repressive measures. We offer a criticism of this view by highli...
- Excessive Self-Defence: Third-Party Problems
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‘Death to Tyrants’: Self-Defence, Human Rights and Tyrannicide-Part II
This is the final part of a series of two papers that have examined the conceptual development of the philosophical justifications for tyrannicide. While part I focused on the classical, medieval, ...
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Expert evidence on coercive control in support of self-defence: The trial of Teresa Craig
This article uses the transcripts from an abused woman’s trial in Canada for first-degree murder of her husband to explore the expert testimony provided by Dr Evan Stark to support a potential defe...
- Self-Defence: Insane Delusions and Reasonable Force
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