Change to choking law 'unfairly retrospective', says ACT Law Society

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August 2 2019 - 12:00am

A law passed in the ACT Assembly on Thursday to change the meanings of choke, strangle and suffocate in the criminal law have been labelled unfair by the ACT Law Society, which says the changes will apply to people retrospectively.

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Alexandra Back

Senior Court Reporter

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