For the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Kiranjit Ahluwalia’s case, click here.
For only a small selection of coverage in the media in this widely, repeatedly and internationally reported case, which attracted world-wide recognition of the plight of abused women who killed, see:
The Independent, 1 August 1992
The Scotsman, 16 February 2003
Asian Culture Vulture, 2 April 2019
The Independent, 16 September 1995
Daily Mail Online, 14 July 2006
SabrangIndia, 27 December 2016
For broad-ranging academic discussions the case, see:
Elizabeth Mytton, The Radical Potentialities of Biographical Methods for Making Difference(s) Visible.
Keith Rix, ‘Battered woman syndrome’ and the defence of provocation: two women with something more in common,The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry
Donal Nicolson and Rohit Sanghvi, Battered Women and Provocation: The Implications of R v Ahluwalia, Criminal Law Review, 1993
Paula Nicolson, Domestic Violence and Psychology
Alad Reed and Michael Bohlander, Loss of Control and Diminished Responsibility