This is the news report that discusses the Supreme Court of Canada decision on R. v. Lavallee, which set a historical Canadian legal precedent for women's self-defence.
In 1990, the Supreme Court of Canada made a historical ruling that recognized battered woman syndrome as a murder defence, which set a legal precedent for women's rights to self defence.
The case came about from a woman names Angelique Lynn Lavallee who was in an abusive common law relationship and after a particularly serious fight with serious threats involved, she killed her partner out of self-defence.
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