Common law self-defence is abolished in Victoria for murder and manslaughter by Subdivision 1AA of the Crimes Act 1958; the statutory defence in s 9AC is the exclusive self-defence regime for homicide offences. Section 9AD (defensive homicide) applies whether the jury positively finds the accused held a self-defence belief or merely finds the Crown failed to disprove such a belief. The Court proposed a model jury direction for defensive homicide and called for legislative redrafting of the provisions.
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