Provocation in English law
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Provocation in English law
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In English law, provocation was a mitigatory defence to murder which had taken many guises over generations many of which had been strongly disapproved and modified. In closing decades, in widely upheld form, it amounted to proving a reasonable total loss of control as a response to another's objectively provocative conduct sufficient to convert what would otherwise have been murder into manslaughter. It only applied to murder. It was abolished on 4 October 2010 by section 56(1) of the Coroners
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Former mitigatory defence for murder in English law
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provocation_in_English_law
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2024-01-26T00:15:12Z
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