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What Type Of Defence Is Provocation?

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What Type Of Defence Is Provocation? In New South Wales, extreme provocation can be used as a ‘partial defence’ to a charge of murder. If a person charged with murder was acting in response to extreme provocation, he or she will be found guilty of manslaughter rather than murder (Crimes Act 1900, Section 23(1)). Is

What Is Extreme Provocation?

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What Is Extreme Provocation? Provocation, or as it is now known “extreme provocation”, operates to reduce a charge of murder to manslaughter: s 23(1) Crimes Act 1900. … That substitution does not apply to the trial of a person for murder allegedly committed before 13 June 2014: s 23(9). What are the elements of provocation?