Damien Carrick: Hallo, and welcome. Today on The Law Report: The defence of provocation; is it past its use-by date? Damien Carrick: Provocation, the so-called 'jealous lover's' defence is a partial ...

GODHRA, India, March 5 -- For two days, as the Sabarmati Express snaked across northern India, some Hindu activists in cars S-5 and S-6 carried on like hooligans. They exposed themselves to other ...

Jane Ashton successfully campaigned for the provocation defence to be abolished in Victoria after James Ramage used the defence for killing her sister Julie. AAP Image/ Brent Bignell In Parliament ...

The defence of provocation needs to be changed in NSW. Flickr/璟 Earlier this year, Chamanjot Singh was sentenced in the New South Wales Supreme Court to six years jail for slitting his wife’s throat ...

I have been meaning to write about the defence of provocation in the context of spousal abuse and in the meantime there have been at least three widely reported domestic homicides, the latest victim ...