Criminal Law

By Mark Thomas

Criminal Law is a brand new text aimed at students studying on an LLB or GDL course.
Written in plain English, it provides students with a detailed understanding of the theoretical and substantive aspects of the law of crime, whilst maintaining a practice-based approach.
The book provides a sound base level of knowledge of the substantive law. It then adds to this knowledge to ensure that students are able to apply the substantive law using a variety of skills in different contexts. Then, the text shows students how to engage with the subject and critically evaluate and consider the implications of the law in any given scenario. It is essential that students understand the dynamism of criminal law and ask the difficult questions that have been, and remain to be, pondered by academics. As such, the book also considers the social, economic and political context.

This new edition of Criminal Law aims to present the law as of May 2020 and discusses recent cases on the following topics:

•  R v Wallace (Berlinah) (causation)
• R v Lane and Letts (AB and CD) (knowledge and strict liability)
• R (Davies) v Criminal Cases Review Commission, R v Towers; R v Hawkes, R v Tas, R v Harper, R v Daley (Kyrone), R v Jackson and R v N (accessories)
• R (Conway) v Secretary of State for Justice (assisted suicide)
• R v Cheeseman (householder self-defence)
• Pegram v DPP (evidence of self-defence and level of acceptable force)
• R v Taj (intoxicated mistakes in self-defence)
• R v MK; R v Gega (Modern Slavery Act 2015)
• R v Challen (diminished responsibility), R v Hussain and R v Sargeant (diminished responsibility and uncontested medical evidence)
• R v Winterton and R v Kuddus (gross negligence manslaughter)
• R v Melin (deception as to identity and attributes)
• R v Goodwin and R v Christian (loss of self-control)
• R v Tunstill (infanticide)
• R v Gimbert (theft of land)
• R v Cyprian Okoro (No 3) (meaning of possession)
• R v Eletu (aggravated burglary)
• R v Atta-Dankwa (s 18 GBH)
• R v Wilkinson (prevention of crime)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hall & Stott
• Release date: Aug 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9781916243163

Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas is the founder and president of Escoute Consulting, an IT governance consultancy focusing on helping enterprises realise benefits through risk and resource optimisation. As a nationally known ITIL and COBIT expert with more than 20 years of professional experience, Mark’s background spans leadership roles from data centre chief information officer (CIO) to management and IT consulting. Mark has led large teams in outsourced IT arrangements, conducted project management office (PMO), service management and governance activities for major project teams, and managed enterprise applications implementations across multiple industries. Mark has an array of industry experience in the healthcare, finance, manufacturing, services, high technology and government verticals. When he’s not travelling, Mark lives with his family in the Kansas City, MO, area and claims to be a ‘certified’ barbeque judge in his spare time.