730-368 Criminal Law and Procedure

Legal Method and Reasoning; Principles of Public Law or in each case their equivalents.

The subject studies the legal categories, judicial culture, and socio-historical contexts through which the contemporary attribution of criminal responsibility takes place. The topics covered include: theories of criminal law and the role of criminal law in society; the formal structure of substantive criminal law; the institutional arrangements of criminal procedure and their respective rationales; the law of homicide (murder and manslaughter); the law of non-fatal offences (including sexual offences) against the person; the law of the defences (examples may include self-defence, intoxication, necessity); the law of offences against; the law relating to strict and absolute liability offences; the law of complicity and attempts; and the law of criminal procedure.

Throughout each of these topics, the emphasis is on both the theories and the practices of criminal law.

Compulsory non-assesed group court visit and report to class, compulsory non-assesed mid-semester test and a final open-book examination three hours 100%.

Students will be advised by lecturers in their respective stream to purchase one of the following:

• Rush & Yeo, Criminal Law Sourcebook. 2nd ed. OR.
• Williams & Waller, Criminal Law: Text and Cases. 10th ed.