Provocation as a legal defence to murder comes from the days when men tended to be armed and were honour-bound to avenge any personal insult “by instant angry retaliation”, according to a 2001 UK ...

A NSW parliamentary inquiry has recommended the introduction of a ‘partial defence of gross provocation’ in legal trials involving lethal violent acts. AAP/Angela Brkic ...

Banjul — The case of DADDY JOSEPH WILLIAMS Vs THE STATE {1998} 1 GMLR 3 is perhaps the locus classicus on the pleas of provocation and self-defence in the Gambian jurisprudence. The facts of that case ...

Queensland Premier Anastasia Palaszcuk and Attorney General Yvette D'Ath may be missing the bigger picture on the legal defence of provocation. AAP Image/Dave Hunt The Queensland Labor government ...