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Criminal Law Study Guide

This document is a study pack containing 32 chapters and extracts from legal textbooks, judgments, and articles on various topics in criminal law. The chapters and extracts are organized into 11 sections covering subjects such as the definition of crime, elements of offenses, defenses, and specific crimes. They are intended to provide educational material for studying criminal law.

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Criminal Law Study Guide

This document is a study pack containing 32 chapters and extracts from legal textbooks, judgments, and articles on various topics in criminal law. The chapters and extracts are organized into 11 sections covering subjects such as the definition of crime, elements of offenses, defenses, and specific crimes. They are intended to provide educational material for studying criminal law.

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Criminal law Study pack

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Contents

Subject guide
chapter
1 1 Textbook of criminal law Chapter 1: ‘Crime and the criminal law’, pp.36–41,
by Glanville Williams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 2 Textbook of criminal law Chapter 3: ‘Intention’, pp.70–74, by Glanville Williams . . . 11
3 ‘Language barrier’ by Nigel Hanson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3 4 Extract from ‘Insanity, automatism, and the burden of proof on the accused’
by Timothy H. Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
5 Criminal law theory and doctrine, Chapter 4 ‘The actus reus’ pp.75–77
by Andrew Simester and Robert Sullivan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
6 Criminal law theory and doctrine, Chapter 4 ‘The actus reus’ pp.114–117
by Andrew Simester and Robert Sullivan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
4 7 Lord Lane’s judgment in R v Stone; R v Dobinson [1977] QB 354, [1977]
2 All ER 341, [1977] 2 WLR 169, 64 Cr App R 186, 141 JP 354 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
8 European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms . . . . . . . . 50
5 9 Textbook of criminal law Chapter 16: ‘Causation’, pp.381–382, by Glanville Williams . 52
10 ‘Criminal causation and the careless doctor’ byJohn E. Stannard . . . . . . . . . . . 55
6 11 Lord Bingham’s speech in R v G and another [2003] UKHL 50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
12 European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms . . . . . . . . 72
13 Extract from Ackner LJ’s judgment in Attorney General’s reference
(No. 4 of 1980) [1981] 2 All ER 617 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
7 14 Extract from the judgment in R v Malcherek; R v Steel [1981] 2 All ER
422, 422 –429 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
15 Extracts from Re A (children) [2000] 4 All ER 961 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
16 Extract of the judgment from Lamb [1967] 2 All ER 1282 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
17 Extract from R v Misra; R v Srivastava [2004] EWCA Crim 2375 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
18 Judgment from Powell & Daniels; English [1999] 1 AC 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
9 19 Extract from R v Ireland and Burstow [1998] AC 147 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
20 Extract from the Law Commission: Offences Against the Person Bill 1998 . . . . . . 96
21 ‘Should more matches end in court?’ by Simon Gardiner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
10 22 Extract from Crown Prosecution Service Guidance to Prosecutors . . . . . . . . . . 104
23 Extract from Judicial Studies Board Specimen Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
24 Extract from R v Savage; R v Parmenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
11 25 Criminal law: texts and materials by C.M.V. Clarkson and H.M. Keating . . . . . . . . 139
26 Setting the boundaries: Reforming the law on sex offences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
27 Protecting the public: Strengthening protection against sex offenders
and reforming the law on sexual offences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
28 ‘The Sexual Offences Act 2003: (1) Rape, Sexual Assaults and
the Problems of Consent’ by J. Temkin and A. Ashworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
14 29 Director of Public Prosecutions v Armstrong [2000] Crim LR 379 . . . . . . . . . . . 195
18 30 Lloyd [1992]: Case Comment by Professor J. C. Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
31 Criminal Damage Act 1971, Section 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
32 Extract from R v Steer [1987] 2 All ER 833 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

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