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Lee-Anne Gaertner

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Lee-Anne Gaertner

Courts need to take into account Battered Woman Syndrome and other psychological effects of ongoing intimate partner violence.
ABUSE

Him or me: How abused women are criminalised

A constitutional challenge to the Mandatory Minimum Sentences Regime and the Criminal Law Amendment Act aims to show that these Acts fail to consider the effects of prolonged…

  • Lee-Anne Gaertner
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