Easteal closely scrutinises the judges' sentencing remarks in each of ten cases of battered women who had killed their partners, in order to identify which variables contributed to more lenient sanctions and which factors appeared to correlate with harsher sentences. She also uses the remarks to...

In this paper we look at recent happenings concerning social security law and domestic violence. Several decisions have been made in which women subject to domestic violence were found to qualify for discretionary rulings under section 24 of the Social Security Act 1991 (the ‘SSA’) that a...

Specific problems relating to domestic violence are outlined for children, pregnant women, the elderly, indigenous people and people of non-English speaking background. Individual case studies illustrate the effects of domestic violence on a nine week old baby, an elderly person, an indigenous...