A New Duress Defence and The Theory of Understandable ...

A new underpinning theory of duress, called understandable compliance, will be proposed. This will acknowledge that when the defendant is faced with a threat of death the law should not expect him to act heroically (or even reasonably), but instead afford a defence when the defendant’s actions are a normatively understandable compliance to the threat. ................
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