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" Cases & Materials on Criminal Law : "
Michael T Molan
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785154
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b605168
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Michael T Molan
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Cases Materials on Criminal Law : : Fourth Edition.\ Michael T Molan
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2nd ed
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London: Taylor and Francis, 2009. ©2008
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(830 pages)
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020388583X
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: 9780203885833
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Cover --; CASES AND MATERIALS ON CRIMINAL LAW --; Copyright --; OUTLINE CONTENTS --; DETAILED CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; TABLE OF CASES --; TABLE OF STATUTES --; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL LAW: FRAMEWORK AND PROCEDURES --; 1.1 INTRODUCTION --; 1.2 WHAT IS CRIMINAL LAW? --; 1.3 SOURCES OF CRIMINAL LAW --; 1.4 INTERPRETING CRIMINAL STATUTES --; 1.5 CLASSIFICATION OF OFFENCES --; 1.6 THE DECISION TO PROSECUTE --; 1.7 ESTABLISHING CRIMINAL LIABILITY --; THE BURDEN AND STANDARD OF PROOF --; 1.8 CRIMINAL APPEALS --; 1.9 CODIFICATION OF THE CRIMINAL LAW --; 1.10 THE IMPACT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998 ON SUBSTANTIVE CRIMINAL LAW --; CHAPTER 2 ACTUS REUS: THE EXTERNAL ELEMENTS OF AN OFFENCE --; 2.1 TERMINOLOGY --; 2.2 A STATE OF AFFAIRS AMOUNTING TO AN ACTUS REUS --; 2.3 CODIFICATION AND LAW REFORM PROPOSALS --; 2.4 ACTUS REUS MUST BE VOLUNTARY --; 2.5 CRIMINAL LIABILITY FOR OMISSIONS --; CHAPTER 3 MENS REA: THE MENTAL ELEMENT --; 3.1 INTRODUCTION --; 3.2 MENS REA: INTENTION --; THE BACKGROUND TO THE CURRENT LAW --; 3.3 MENS REA --; RECKLESSNESS --; 3.4 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MISTAKE --; 3.5 CHILDREN AND PROOF OF MENS REA --; 3.6 COINCIDENCE OF ACTUS REUS AND MENS REA --; 3.7 TRANSFERRED MALICE --; 3.8 STRICT LIABILITY --; 3.9 CORPORATE BODIES AND PROOF OF MENS REA --; CHAPTER 4 HOMICIDE --; 4.1 INTRODUCTION --; 4.2 THE ACTUS REUS OF HOMICIDE --; THE VICTIM MUST BE A 'LIFE IN BEING' --; 4.3 CAUSATION --; 4.4 THE GAP IN TIME BETWEEN THE DEFENDANT'S ACT AND THE VICTIM'S DEATH --; 4.5 THE MENS REA FOR MURDER --; 4.6 VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER --; 4.7 INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER: UNLAWFUL ACT MANSLAUGHTER --; 4.8 INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER: KILLING BY GROSS NEGLIGENCE. 4.9 CAUSING OR ALLOWING THE DEATH OF A CHILD OR VULNERABLE ADULT --; 4.10 CODIFICATION AND LAW REFORM PROPOSALS --; 4.11 CORPORATE MANSLAUGHTER --; 4.12 REFORM OF CORPORATE MANSLAUGHTER --; CHAPTER 5 NON-FATAL OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON --; 5.1 INTRODUCTION --; 5.2 SECTION 18 OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON ACT 1861 --; WOUNDING OR GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM WITH INTENT --; 5.3 SECTION 20 OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON ACT 1861 --; MALICIOUS WOUNDING OR GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM --; 5.4 SECTION 47 OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON ACT 1861 --; ASSAULT OCCASIONING ACTUAL BODILY HARM --; 5.5 POISONING --; 5.6 COMMON ASSAULT AND BATTERY --; 5.7 'STALKING' --; 5.8 RACIALLY MOTIVATED ASSAULTS AND HARASSMENT --; 5.9 CODIFICATION AND LAW REFORM PROPOSALS --; 5.10 CONSENT TO PHYSICAL HARM AS A DEFENCE --; CHAPTER 6 SEXUAL OFFENCES --; 6.1 INTRODUCTION --; 6.2 RAPE --; THE NEED FOR REFORM --; 6.3 THE REFORMED OFFENCE OF RAPE --; 6.4 'QUASI-RAPE' --; ASSAULT BY PENETRATION --; 6.5 SEXUAL ASSAULT --; 6.6 CAUSING A PERSON TO ENGAGE IN SEXUAL ACTIVITY WITHOUT CONSENT --; 6.7 OFFENCES AGAINST CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13 --; 6.8 PROTECTION OF CHILDREN BETWEEN 13 AND 16 --; CHAPTER 7 ACCESSORIAL LIABILITY --; 7.1 INTRODUCTION --; 7.2 MODES OF PARTICIPATION: COUNSELLING --; 7.3 MODES OF PARTICIPATION: PROCURING --; 7.4 AIDING AND ABETTING --; 7.5 PRESENCE AT THE SCENE OF THE CRIME AND FAILING TO PREVENT THE COMMISSION OF OFFENCES --; 7.6 HOW CAN AN ACCOMPLICE WITHDRAW FROM PARTICIPATION IN THE COMMISSION OF AN OFFENCE? --; 7.7 THE MENS REA OF ACCOMPLICES --; 7.8 ESTABLISHING THE MENS REA OF ACCOMPLICES. 7.9 WHERE THE PRINCIPAL COMMITS ACTS OUTSIDE THE CONTEMPLATION OF THE ACCOMPLICE --; 7.10 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LIABILITY OF THE PRINCIPAL AND THE ACCOMPLICE --; CHAPTER 8 INCHOATE OFFENCES --; 8.1 INTRODUCTION --; 8.2 INCITEMENT --; 8.3 STATUTORY CONSPIRACY --; 8.4 ATTEMPT --; 8.5 DOUBLY INCHOATE OFFENCES --; INCITING INCITEMENT --; CHAPTER 9 THEFT --; 9.1 INTRODUCTION --; 9.2 PROPERTY: THE STATUTORY DEFINITION --; 9.3 APPROPRIATION --; 9.4 PROPERTY BELONGING TO ANOTHER --; 9.5 DISHONESTY --; 9.6 INTENTION TO PERMANENTLY DEPRIVE --; 9.7 MAKING OFF WITHOUT PAYMENT --; 9.8 TAKING A MOTOR VEHICLE OR OTHER CONVEYANCE WITHOUT AUTHORITY --; CHAPTER 10 THE FRAUD ACT 2006 --; 10.1 INTRODUCTION --; 10.2 WHY WAS IT NECESSARY TO REPLACE DECEPTION OFFENCES WITH FRAUD OFFENCES? --; 10.3 SECTION 2 OF THE FRAUD ACT 2006 --; FRAUD BY FALSE REPRESENTATION --; 10.4 SECTION 3 OF THE FRAUD ACT 2006 --; FRAUD BY FAILING TO DISCLOSE INFORMATION --; 10.5 SECTION 4 OF THE FRAUD ACT 2006 --; FRAUD BY ABUSE OF POSITION --; 10.6 SECTION 11 OF THE FRAUD ACT 2006 --; DISHONESTLY OBTAINING SERVICES --; 10.7 OTHER OFFENCES UNDER THE FRAUD ACT 2006 --; 10.8 SHOULD DISHONESTY HAVE BEEN RETAINED AS AN ELEMENT OF THE FRAUD ACT 2006 OFFENCES? --; CHAPTER 11 ROBBERY, BLACKMAIL, BURGLARY AND GOING EQUIPPED --; 11.1 INTRODUCTION: ROBBERY --; 11.2 BLACKMAIL --; 11.3 BURGLARY --; 11.4 TRESPASS WITH INTENT TO COMMIT A SEXUAL OFFENCE --; 11.5 AGGRAVATED BURGLARY --; 11.6 GOING EQUIPPED FOR STEALING, ETC --; CHAPTER 12 CRIMINAL DAMAGE --; 12.1 INTRODUCTION --; 12.2 PROPERTY BELONGING TO ANOTHER --; 12.3 DAMAGE OR DESTROY --; 12.4 WITHOUT LAWFUL EXCUSE --; 12.5 AGGRAVATED CRIMINAL DAMAGE --; 12.6 OTHER OFFENCES UNDER THE CRIMINAL DAMAGE ACT 1971 --; 12.7 RACIALLY MOTIVATED CRIMINAL DAMAGE. CHAPTER 13 DEFENCES WHERE MENS REA IS DENIED --; 13.1 VOLUNTARY INTOXICATION --; 13.2 INVOLUNTARY INTOXICATION --; 13.3 CODIFICATION AND LAW REFORM PROPOSALS --; 13.4 SANE AUTOMATISM --; 13.5 INSANE AUTOMATISM --; CHAPTER 14 DEFENCES OF COMPULSION --; 14.1 INTRODUCTION --; 14.2 DURESS PER MINAS --; 14.3 THE AVAILABILITY OF THE DEFENCE OF DURESS PER MINAS: MURDER AND ATTEMPTED MURDER --; 14.4 THE AVAILABILITY OF THE DEFENCE OF DURESS PER MINAS: WHERE A DEFENDANT VOLUNTARILY EXPOSES HIMSELF TO THE RISK OF THREATS --; 14.5 DURESS BY THREATS --; CODIFICATION AND LAW REFORM PROPOSALS --; 14.6 DURESS OF CIRCUMSTANCES --; 14.7 A COMMON LAW DEFENCE OF NECESSITY? --; 14.8 SELF-DEFENCE --; 14.9 THE STATUTORY DEFENCE OF REASONABLE FORCE --; CRIMINAL LAW ACT 1967 --; 14.10 CROWN PROSECUTION GUIDANCE ON SELF-DEFENCE --; 14.11 THE RELEVANCE OF THE DEFENDANT'S PERCEPTION OF THE NEED TO ACT IN SELF-DEFENCE AND THE FORCE REQUIRED --; 14.12 SELF-DEFENCE AND NECESSITY --; 14.13 SELF-DEFENCE --; CODIFICATION AND LAW REFORM PROPOSALS --; INDEX.
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Cases and Materials on Criminal Law provides a comprehensive selection of key materials drawn from law reports, legislation, Law Commission consultation papers and reports, and Home Office publications. Clear and highly accessible, this volume is presented in a coherent structure and provides full coverage of the topics commonly found in the criminal law syllabus. The range of thoughtfully selected materials and authoritative commentary ensures that this book provides an essential collection of materials and analysis to stimulate the reader and assist in the study of this difficult and challenging area of law. New features include: revised text design with clear page layout, headings and boxed and shaded sections to aid navigation and readability chapter introductions to highlight the salient features under discussion short chapter table of contents to enable easier navigation "Comments and Questions" sections to encourage students to reflect on their reading expanded further reading to encourage students to engage further with the subject a Companion Website to provide regular updates to the book. Recent decisions of note that are extracted and analysed include R v Kennedy (manslaughter based on supply of heroin); Attorney General for Jersey v Holley (provocation); R v Mark and R v Willoughby (elements of killing by gross negligence); R v Barnes (consent as a defence to sporting injuries); Attorney General's Reference (No 3 of 2004) (accessorial liability) and R v Hatton (intoxicated mistake in self defence cases). Consideration is also given to the likely changes to the law relating to corporate manslaughter, at the time of writing contained in the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill currently before Parliament. Two major law reform publications are extensively extracted and contextualised in this 4th edition - the Law.<p>Commission's report on Murder, Manslaughter and Infanticide (Law Com No 304) and the Law Commission's Report on Inchoate Liability for Assisting and Encouraging Crime (Law Com No 300). This book is an invaluable reference for students on undergraduate or CPE/PG Diploma in Law criminal law courses, particularly those studying independently or on distance learning programmes.
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Criminal law -- England.
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Criminal law -- Wales.
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Criminal law.
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KD7869.M534 9999
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