R v White (Shane) - [1988] 1 NZLR 122

Criminal law — Defences — Provocation — Murder — Whether the test under s 169(2)(a) of the Crimes Act is objective or subjective — Whether the "circumstances of the case" include information given to the accused before the immediate events of the homicide — Whether such information can be relied on as provocation when an ordinary person would not have believed it — Crimes Act 1961, s 169.