Over the past couple of years several court cases and media reports may have troubled the waters for many who have thought that they understood the principles applicable to the right to self-defence and the correlative use of force, including deadly force, to thwart an unlawful and violent attack. The reference to “putative self-defence” in the Oscar Pistorius trial has also caused confusion since a clear distinction between self-defence and putative self-defence is often not drawn.
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