TY - SER AU - Wake, Nicola TI - ‘His home is his castle. And mine is a cage’: a new partial defence for primary victims who kill PY - 2015/// PB - Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly KW - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE KW - HOMICIDE KW - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE KW - JUSTICE KW - LAW KW - SELF DEFENCE KW - VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE KW - AUSTRALIA KW - NEW ZEALAND KW - UNITED KINGDOM N1 - Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 2015, 66(2): 151-177 N2 - The author proposes a new partial defence for the primary victim in murder/manslaughter cases be introduced in New Zealand and the Australian state of Victoria. The author proposes an entirely new defence predicated on a fear of serious violence and several threshold filter mechanisms designed to accommodate the circumstances of primary victims. Elements of this paper were presented to the Sydney Law School, Institute of Criminology (Nicola Wake, ‘Extreme Provocation and Loss of Control: Comparative Perspectives’ 18 March 2015). Record #4794 UR - http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/23012/1/NILQ_66.2.3_WAKE_FINAL.pdf ER -