No Legal Way Out: R v Ryan, Domestic Abuse, and the Defence of Duress by Nadia Verrelli and Lori Chambers

Authors

Abigail March, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University (Student Author)

Document Type

Book Review

Abstract

The defence of duress in Canadian criminal law has been described by scholars and judges as a “complicated mess,” “[o]ften confusing and potentially gendered,” and “irrational, anomalous, perverse, illogical and fundamentally wrong.” The most recent Supreme Court of Canada case to attempt to bring clarity to the embattled duress defence, R v Ryan (“Ryan”), is the focus of Nadia Verrelli and Lori Chambers’ No Legal Way Out: R v Ryan, Domestic Abuse, and the Defence of Duress (“No Legal Way Out”).

Citation Information

March, Abigail. "No Legal Way Out: R v Ryan, Domestic Abuse, and the Defence of Duress by Nadia Verrelli and Lori Chambers." Osgoode Hall Law Journal 60.3 (2023) : 755-761.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.60082/2817-5069.3928
https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/ohlj/vol60/iss3/6