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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:

BBC News, 4 April 2019

The Guardian, 18 June 2019

The Independent, 20 July 1992

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

BBC News, 12 November 2001

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