No Legal Way Out
R v Ryan, Domestic Abuse, and the Defence of Duress
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2021
- Category
- Gender & the Law, Legal History, Feminism & Feminist Theory
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774838085
- Publish Date
- Aug 2021
- List Price
- $75.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774838092
- Publish Date
- Aug 2021
- List Price
- $27.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774838115
- Publish Date
- Aug 2021
- List Price
- $125.00
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Description
An RCMP sting caught Nicole Doucet (Ryan) trying to hire a hitman to kill her ex-husband. It was supposed to be an open-and-shut case. It wasn’t. No Legal Way Out details the process, the media coverage, and the legal implications of R v Ryan, all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. The outcome of the case limited the legal options for women seeking to escape abuse and had a damaging impact on public perceptions of domestic violence. This unabashedly feminist analysis explains why the court, the police, and the media let down all women trapped by intimate partner terrorism.
About the authors
Nadia Verrelli is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, Laurentian University and a research associate at the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations.
Lori Chambers teaches at McMaster University. She is the author of Married Women and Property Law in Western Ontario.
Editorial Reviews
I highly recommend this well-written, well-referenced, and accessible book as a must-read for the legal profession. No Legal Way Out should be part of the curriculum for law, women's studies, sociology, and other academic programs that deal with domestic abuse.
Canadian Law Library Review
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