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MANITOBA LAW JOURNAL|VOLUME 44 ISSUE 4 2021

We would like to acknowledge the support of the Faculty of Law Legal Research Institute in making these publications possible

Call for Papers

The Slow Death of the Reasonable Steps Requirement for the Mistake of Age Defence

ISABEL GRANT

The Troubled History of the Defence of Duress and Excluded Offences: Could the Reasoned Use of Mitigation on Sentencing Prevent Duress from (Further) Becoming Archaic, Gendered, and Completely Inaccessible?

FRANCES E. CHAPMAN AND GEORGETTE M. LEMIEUX

Fundamentally Flawed: The Arbitrariness of the Corporal Punishment Defence

MARK CARTER

The Constitutionality of Excluding Duress as a Defence to Murder

COLTON FEHR

The Availability of the Common Law Defence of Duress to Principals Charged with Murder: An Analysis of the Conflicting Appellate Decisions in R v Willis (TAW) and R v Aravena
ROBERT H. TANHA

Fitness to Stand Trial and Dementia: Considering Changes to Assessment to Meet Demographic Need
SHAUNA SAWICH AND HYGIEA CASIANO

DAVID IRELAND

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