Self-Defence Briefings

• Making self-defence accessible to victims of domestic abuse who use force against their abuser: Learning from reforms in Canada, New Zealand and Australia
  
  This briefing contains summaries of papers by academic experts in Canada, New Zealand and Australia about attempts made in those jurisdictions to make self-defence more accessible to victims of domestic abuse who use force against their abuser, and the impact of reforms. We also provide contextual information about research in England and Wales on the effectiveness of existing defences, and proposed reforms.
  
  

• Self-defence: Canadian law 1985-2022 by Elizabeth Sheehy
  
  

• Self-defence New Zealand by Julia Tolmie
  
  

• Proposed and actual reforms to self-defence laws in Australia and their impact on women experiencing family violence by Arlie Loughnan and Clare Davidson