Defending Battered Women on Trial: Lessons from the Transcripts

by Elizabeth A. Sheehy and E.J. Koh

In the landmark Lavallee decision of 1990, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that evidence of "battered woman syndrome" was admissible in establishing self-defence for women accused of killing their abusive partners. This book looks at the legal response to battered women who killed their partners in the fifteen years since Lavallee. Elizabeth Sheehy uses trial transcripts and a case study approach to tell the stories of eleven women, ten of whom...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774826525
• ISBN13: 9780774826525
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"