"Defending Primary Victims Who Face Criminal Charges for the Use of Defensive Force Against Their Abusive Partners: Attempting to Change 'laws Practices'"

(2024) 47 University of New South Wales Law Journal 626

Tolmie, Julia; Smith, Rachel; Wilson, Denise

University of New South Wales Law Journal

Australia

Legislation Cited

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Legislation Name	Provision
Evidence Act 1995 (NSW)
Crimes Act 1958 (Vic)	s322J
Jury Directions Act 2015 (Vic)	s60
Evidence Act 1906 (WA)	s39, s39F
Family Violence Legislation Reform Act 2020 (WA)
Crimes Act 1961
Sentencing Act 2002
Evidence Act 2006

Cases and Articles Cited

Case Name	Citation(s)	Court	Jurisdiction	Date †	Full Text	Citation Index
"Indigenous Women and Intimate Partner Homicide in Australia: Confronting the Impunity of Policing Failures"	(2023) 35 (3) Current Issues in Criminal Justice 293	Current Issues in Criminal Justice	Australia	circa 2023	HeinOnline / Informit	1
"Making No-Case Submissions in Self-Defence Claims for Primary Victims of Intimate Partner Violence Charged with Criminal Offending"	(2023) 35 Current Issues in Criminal Justice 48	Current Issues in Criminal Justice	Australia	circa 2023	HeinOnline / Informit	1
Anna Rowan (a pseudonym) v R	[2022] VSCA 236	Supreme Court of Victoria - Court of Appeal	Australia - Victoria	28 Oct 2022	AustLII	7
"Law Reform Processes and Criminalising Coercive Control"	(2022) 48 Australian Feminist Law Journal 57	Australian Feminist Law Journal	Australia	circa 2022	HeinOnline / Informit	2
Berkland v R	[2022] NZSC 143; [2022] 1 NZLR 509	Supreme Court of New Zealand	New Zealand	circa 2022	NZLII	230
New Zealand Police v T	[2022] NZDC 25655	District Court of New Zealand	New Zealand	circa 2022	NZLII	1
R v i	[2021] NZDC 13066	District Court of New Zealand	New Zealand	circa 2021	NZLII	1
"Street Gangs and Coercive Control: The Gendered Exploitation of Young Woman and Girls in County Lines"	(2021) 23 (3) Criminology and Criminal Justice 313	Criminology and Criminal Justice		circa 2021		1
"Social Entrapment Evidence: Understanding Its Role in Self-Defence Cases Involving Intimate Partner Violence"	(2021) 44 University of New South Wales Law Journal 326	University of New South Wales Law Journal	Australia	circa 2021	AustLII	2
R v Ruddelle	[2020] NZHC 1983; [2021] 3 NZLR 505	High Court of New Zealand	New Zealand	7 Aug 2020	NZLII	6
R v S	[2020] NZDC 13968	District Court of New Zealand	New Zealand	circa 2020	NZLII	1
"Facts Seen and Unseen: Improving Justice Responses by using a Social Entrapment Lens for Cases Involving Abused Women (As Offenders or Victims)"	(2020) 32 (4) Current Issues in Criminal Justice 1	Current Issues in Criminal Justice	Australia	circa 2020	HeinOnline / Informit	1
R v Challen	[2019] EWCA Crim 916	England and Wales Court of Appeal - Criminal Division	United Kingdom - England and Wales	28 Feb 2019	BAILII	7
"The Sociology of Gaslighting"	(2019) 84 American Sociological Review 851	American Sociological Review	United States	circa 2019		2
[2019] NZHC 2973	[2019] NZHC 2973	High Court of New Zealand	New Zealand	circa 2019	NZLII	2
"Social Entrapment: A Realistic Understanding of the Criminal Offending of Primary Victims of Intimate Partner Violence"	(2018) 2 New Zealand Law Review 181	New Zealand Law Review	New Zealand	circa 2018	HeinOnline / Informit / LexisNexis	3
"Expert Evidence on Coercive Control in Support of Self-Defence: The Trial of Teresa Craig"	(2018) 18 Criminology and Criminal Justice 100	Criminology and Criminal Justice		circa 2018		2
"Self Defence Against Intimate Partner Violence: Let's Do the Work to See It"	(2018) 43 University of Western Australia Law Review 196	University of Western Australia Law Review	Australia - Western Australia	circa 2018	AustLII	1
Liyanage v Western Australia	[2017] WASCA 112; (2017) 51 WAR 359	Supreme Court of Western Australia - Court of Appeal	Australia - Western Australia	22 Jun 2017	AustLII	37
Silva v R	[2016] NSWCCA 284	Supreme Court of New South Wales - Court of Criminal Appeal	Australia - New South Wales	7 Dec 2016	AustLII	6
Kohai v R	[2015] NZSC 36; [2015] 1 NZLR 833; (2015) 27 CRNZ 446	Supreme Court of New Zealand	New Zealand	16 Apr 2015	NZLII	12
DH v R	[2015] NZSC 35; [2015] 1 NZLR 625; (2015) 27 CRNZ 460	Supreme Court of New Zealand	New Zealand	16 Apr 2015	NZLII	31
DPP v Williams	[2014] VSC 304	Supreme Court of Victoria	Australia - Victoria	27 Jun 2014	AustLII	13
"Securing Fair Outcomes for Battered Women Charged With Homicide: Analysing Defence Lawyering in R v Falls"	(2014) 38 Melbourne University Law Review 666	Melbourne University Law Review	Australia	circa 2014	AustLII	7
"Imprisoned Indigenous Women and the Shadow of Colonial Patriarchy"	(2014) 47 (2) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 276	Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology	Australia	circa 2014		3
Bugmy v R	(2013) 249 CLR 571		Australia - Commonwealth	circa 2013	Legal Online / Westlaw	1738
"Counterintuitive Expert Psychological Evidence in Child Sexual Abuse Trials in New Zealand"	(2013) 21 (4) Psychiatry Psychology and Law 517	Psychiatry Psychology and Law	Australia	circa 2013	HeinOnline	1
"Homicide Law Reform in Australia: Improving Access to Defences for Women who Kill their Abusers"	(2013) 39 Monash University Law Review 864	Monash University Law Review	Australia	circa 2013	AustLII	6
"Battered Women Charged with Homicide in Australia, Canada and New Zealand: How Do They Fare?"	(2012) 45 (3) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 383	Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology	Australia	circa 2012		1
"Self-Defence and the Reasonable Woman: Equality before the New Victorian Law"	(2012) 36 Melbourne University Law Review 250	Melbourne University Law Review	Australia	circa 2012	AustLII	6
"Defences to Homicide for Battered Women: A Comparative Analysis of Laws in Australia, Canada and New Zealand"	(2012) 34 Sydney Law Review 467	Sydney Law Review	Australia	circa 2012	AustLII	10
"Re-Framing the Rape Trial: Insights from Critical Theory about the Limitations of Legislative Reform"	(2011) 35 Australian Feminist Law Journal 23	Australian Feminist Law Journal	Australia	circa 2011	HeinOnline / Informit	9
R v Yeoman	[2003] NSWSC 194	Supreme Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	21 Mar 2003	AustLII	8
R v Gladue	[1999] 1 SCR 688; 133 CCC (3d) 385	Supreme Court of Canada	Canada	circa 1999		60
"Battered Women and Bad Science: The Ltd Validity and Utility of Battered Woman Syndrome"	(1999) 6 Psychiatry Psychology and Law 23	Psychiatry Psychology and Law	Australia	circa 1999	HeinOnline	5
Osland v R	[1998] HCA 75; (1998) 197 CLR 316; (1998) 159 ALR 170; (1998) 73 ALJR 173; (1998) 20 Leg Rep C1	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	10 Dec 1998	AustLII	437
"The Battered Woman Syndrome in the Age of Science"	(1997) 39 Arizona Law Review 67	Arizona Law Review	United States	circa 1997	HeinOnline / LexisNexis	7
"Battered but Not Beaten: Women Who Kill in Self Defence"	(1993) 15 Sydney Law Review 403	Sydney Law Review	Australia	circa 1993	AustLII	20
"Defending battered women on trial: the battered woman syndrome and its limitations"	(1992) 16 Criminal Law Journal 369	Criminal Law Journal	Australia	circa 1992	Legal Online	15
Zecevic v DPP (Vic)	[1987] HCA 26; (1987) 162 CLR 645; (1987) 71 ALR 641; (1987) 25 A Crim R 163; (1987) 61 ALJR 375	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	1 Jul 1987	AustLII	420
Palmer v Simmonds	[1970] UKPC 2; [1971] AC 814; [1971] 1 All ER 1077; (1971) 55 Cr App R 223; [1971] 2 WLR 831; (1971) 16 WIR 499	Privy Council	United Kingdom	14 Jan 1970	BAILII	242

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