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Undergraduate 1
05/28/2013

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Term
Self Defence
Definition
Martin - proportionately (gross in householder)
Re A - need not be offence if conjoined twin
Gladstone Williams - as D honestly believed to be
Palmer - defence null once attack over
Bird - no duty to retreat
Term
Duress of threat
Definition
Howe - no defence to murder
Graham - reasonable belief in threat to life/serious injury, at D or family and sober-man test
Hudson & Taylor - perjury need not be immediate
Valderma-Vega - need not be sole cause
Hasan - no voluntary involvement in criminality
Term
Duress of circumstances
Definition
Conway - speeding gunshot to hospital
Term
Duress: academics
Definition
BINGHAM - 'irresistible' to extend to murder
SA - defence to murder (Goliath)
STEPHENS - shouldn't be defence at all, highest temptation should be strongest on law
Term
NECESSITY
Definition
Dudley & Stephens - ate weakest in shipreck, G
Re F - sterilise pregnant mental, NG
Pommel - held firearm to hand in = defence
GLAZEBROOK - exists in jury/nullification
ROGERS - compromises law, only be very narrow
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