Critical analysis of expert evidence used in support of the battered woman syndrome defence
The South Africa criminal law allows the battered woman to raise a battered woman syndrome defence in the context of non-pathological criminal incapacity. However, there is a need of expert evidence to support such defence for it to succeed in the court of law. Hence, this paper scrutinizes the task...
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University of Pretoria
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31640 Shaba, F 2012, Critical analysis of expert evidence used in support of the battered woman syndrome defence, LLM dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31640> |