Robson Crim Legal Blog

MANITOBA LAW JOURNAL|VOLUME 44 ISSUE 4 2021

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We would like to acknowledge the support of the Faculty of Law Legal Research Institute in making these publications possible

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Call for Papers

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The Slow Death of the Reasonable Steps Requirement for the Mistake of Age Defence

ISABEL GRANT

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The Troubled History of the Defence of Duress and Excluded Offences: Could the Reasoned Use of Mitigation on Sentencing Prevent Duress from (Further) Becoming Archaic, Gendered, and Completely Inaccessible?

FRANCES E. CHAPMAN AND GEORGETTE M. LEMIEUX

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Fundamentally Flawed: The Arbitrariness of the Corporal Punishment Defence

MARK CARTER

 

The Constitutionality of Excluding Duress as a Defence to Murder

COLTON FEHR

 

The Availability of the Common Law Defence of Duress to Principals Charged with Murder: An Analysis of the Conflicting Appellate Decisions in R v Willis (TAW) and R v Aravena
ROBERT H. TANHA

 

Fitness to Stand Trial and Dementia: Considering Changes to Assessment to Meet Demographic Need
SHAUNA SAWICH AND HYGIEA CASIANO

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Year in Review

DAVID IRELAND

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