{"title":"Obstacles to fairness in criminal proceedings: Individual rights and institutional forms [Book review]","authors":"E. Johnston","doi":"10.5040/9781782258384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781782258384","url":null,"abstract":"This is a book review for Obstacles to Fairness in Criminal Proceedings: Individual Rights and Institutional Forms.","PeriodicalId":81026,"journal":{"name":"Criminal law review (London, England)","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42610873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Expert evidence and the Law Commission : implementation without legislation?","authors":"T. Ward","doi":"10.4324/9781315094205-24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315094205-24","url":null,"abstract":"Argues that, despite a failure to implement the recommendations in the Law Commission's 2011 report entitled \"Expert Evidence in Criminal Proceedings\", many of its proposals on the exclusion of such evidence might be introduced by the judiciary's appropriate exercise of common law powers. Reviews the Commission's proposals, the common law principles determining when expert evidence is not admitted, and how such discretion could be used to exclude evidence failing the Commission's core test. Discusses the drawbacks of such an approach and whether the Commission proposals were too timid.","PeriodicalId":81026,"journal":{"name":"Criminal law review (London, England)","volume":"1 1","pages":"561-576"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70629449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forensic science evidence in question","authors":"Mike Redmayne, P. Roberts, C. Aitken, G. Jackson","doi":"10.4324/9781315094205-11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315094205-11","url":null,"abstract":"Analyses the Court of Appeal judgment in R. v T in which the court in remarking on shoeprint comparison evidence considered how expert witnesses, in particular forensic scientists, should present their evidence in court and the types and quality of the data they can draw on when formulating their conclusions. Identifies what the court had to say about the methodology employed by the expert witness, in particular the use of likelihood ratios. Emphasises positive features of the judgment, rejecting interpretations which threaten to diminish the integrity and distort the probative value of scientific evidence.","PeriodicalId":81026,"journal":{"name":"Criminal law review (London, England)","volume":"5 1","pages":"347-356"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70629768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Principle of Composite Sentencing: Its Centrality to, and Implications for, the ASBO","authors":"Stuart Macdonald","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.890529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.890529","url":null,"abstract":"The ASBO was designed for use in cases involving individuals who have persistently committed criminal acts of a certain level of seriousness in a particular area, making the lives of those living there unbearable. It was intended to provide a mechanism for the imposition of composite sentences on perpetrators of such behaviour - a sentence reflecting the aggregate impact of their course of conduct as opposed to the seriousness of a single criminal act. This article argues that, even though the severe maximum sentence for breach of an ASBO can only be justified by reference to the principle of composite sentencing, the courts have denied the role of this principle. This has resulted in confusion, not only over the penalties which should be applied to individuals found to have breached their ASBO, but also over the role of the remedy itself. The article argues that the principle of composite sentencing should be recognised as an integral feature of the ASBO's design, and outlines three implications which would follow for the remedy.","PeriodicalId":81026,"journal":{"name":"Criminal law review (London, England)","volume":"2006 1","pages":"791"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2139/SSRN.890529","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67858781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Euthanasia and the Defence of Necessity: advocating a more appropriate legal response","authors":"S. Ost","doi":"10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199228294.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199228294.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the question of whether the defence of necessity could be utilised in cases of euthanasia in the medical context. It challenges the application of the doctrine of double effect as a means of ascertaining the physician's primary intent and argues instead that the law should recognise that the physician faces a situation of necessity. It asserts that given the potential availability of the defence of diminished responsibility to a relative or spouse who carries out a mercy killing, not allowing the physician to utilise the defence of necessity may place him at greater risk of conviction for murder than the layperson.","PeriodicalId":81026,"journal":{"name":"Criminal law review (London, England)","volume":"1 1","pages":"355-370"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60647909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legislative technique and human rights: the sad case of assisted suicide.","authors":"Richard H S Tur","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ths article reviews the issues raised by the case of Diane Pretty and argues that contrary to the views of the English Courts and the European Court of Human Rights, section 2 of the Suicide Act 1961 is incompatible with the Convention. Failing legislative reform, the DPP should formulate and publicise criteria for the exercise of its consent to prosecution in cases of assisted suicide.</p>","PeriodicalId":81026,"journal":{"name":"Criminal law review (London, England)","volume":" ","pages":"3-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25906868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Necessity, private defence and the killing of Mary.","authors":"J Rogers","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines the reasons used by the Court of Appeal in Re A (Children) to authorise and justify an operation which would inevitably kill the weaker of a pair of conjoined twins in order to offer the stronger twin a good chance of a long and happy life. The crux of the judgment was that a utilitarian theory of necessity could justify this operation. This article seeks to define the criminal law defences at issue in the case and to argue that utilitarian necessity is such a dangerous doctrine that it should never be employed if there is any other defence which can be made to serve the same purpose--as there was in the present case.</p>","PeriodicalId":81026,"journal":{"name":"Criminal law review (London, England)","volume":" ","pages":"515-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25963187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new direction on DNA?","authors":"K Hunter","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81026,"journal":{"name":"Criminal law review (London, England)","volume":" ","pages":"478-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25962746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Euthanasia and death with dignity: still poised on the fulcrum of homicide.","authors":"H Biggs","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article questions whether the law of homicide is an appropriate mechanism to adjudicate the humanitarian issues involved in voluntary euthanasia; particularly where painful protracted dying appears inherently more harmful than euthanasia. The author suggests that even if euthanasia can provide death with dignity this will not be achieved while the law requires the undignified criminalisation of the practitioner.</p>","PeriodicalId":81026,"journal":{"name":"Criminal law review (London, England)","volume":" ","pages":"878-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25235186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}