Igba Ogbole: Interrogating the legality of increasing calls for self-defence
Igba Ogbole: Interrogating the legality of increasing calls for self-defence Published Black’s Law Dictionary, edited by Bryan Garner, defines Self-Defence as the use of force to protect oneself, one’s family or one’s property from real or threatened attack. Just as the right to life is globally accepted as fundamental, the right to self-preservation is a law of nature. Self-preservation, of which self-defence is a natural component, is a concept that is an intrinsic part of not just humanity but even animals; and nations of the world recognise this. Thomas Hobbes, the seventeenth centu...