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Stereotypes, credibility issues diminish battered woman’s claim to provocation

Thursday, July 22, 2021 @ 2:35 PM | By Vanessa Lisa Kiraly

Despite the 2015 amendments narrowing the availability of the defence to men who kill their partners, it has been said that “men’s accounts of their lives and experiences continue to carry...

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