The requirements of the old defence of provocation under the common law and Homicide Act 1957 did not cover cases of abused women who kill their abusers. The defence did not recognise the reaction of abused women as reasonable within the context of domestic violence, instead abused women were required to fall within the masculine construction of appropriate reaction or else construed within the framework of mental abnormality. The aim of this book is to evaluate the effectiveness of the new defence of loss of control by considering the ways in which the new defence might have solved the...

The police powers of stop and search is an important investigative tool utilised for the purposes of crime detection and prevention in relation to individuals suspected of an offence at a specific time. The aim of this book is to analyse how the use of stop and search powers affects an individuals' right to freedom from discrimination (article 14) and the right to privacy (article 8) under the European Convention on Human Rights. In analysing the exercise of these powers, the author makes use of government statistics and reports to argue that the use such powers against ethnic minority groups...