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Friday essay: jilted lovers could once sue for breach of promise – did we lose something in abolishing this law?

By Alecia Simmonds, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney

Australians could once claim compensation for injuries arising from a broken engagement. Today, the responsibility for romantic injury has been individualised and feminised, its pain trivialised.

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