Reforms to South Australian criminal law have been proposed in a new report on the issue of provocation and the outdated “gay panic defence”. The independent South Australian Law Reform Institute, based at the University of Adelaide, has now finalised stage one of a two-stage report into the area of provocation. The current law in […]
Tags: Adelaide, gay panic defence, law, SA law reform institute, South Australia, university of adelaide
4 May 2017 /
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People accused of murder in Queensland will no longer be able to use the controversial ‘gay panic” defence. A bill to remove the partial defence from the state’s legal system was passed on Tuesday night. The defence option had previously allowed people to claim that they had committed a murder due to an unwanted sexual […]
Tags: Australian Christian Lobby, gay panic defence, Queensland, Wayne Ruks
21 Mar 2017 |
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