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 ...

Provocation, a defence which judges have repeatedly said requires significant reform, is used in a quarter of all murder trials. Ireland is unique among common law countries in allowing a murder ...