The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday let stand a 26-year-old doctrine that the passion-provocation defense is allowed only in murder cases and not for manslaughter. The Legislature could have ...

Queensland Attorney-General Cameron Dick has this week revealed plans to amend the Criminal Code so that the defence of verbal provocation can no longer be used as an excuse for criminal behaviour.

Provocation is not an innocent act. Under specific circumstances, provocation constitutes a tort or even a crime, especially when it deliberately generates a violent response. There is no binding ...

In fact, as our submission to the NSW inquiry stated, we argued that this partial defence should not be available if the crown proves that the accused intended to kill. While not excusing violence, we ...

In a trial where prosecutors unwittingly helped make the case in support of Kyle Rittenhouse’s right of self-defense, they sought during closing arguments to deprive him of that right by arguing that ...