Scots Criminal Law
Scots Criminal Law

Author: Pamela R Ferguson

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 798

ISBN-13: 0748695834

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Scots Criminal Law "e; A Critical Analysis provides a clear statement of the current law for students and practitioners, with a theoretical and critical focus. This new edition has been updated to reflect changes in the law since the first edition publishe

Essays in Criminal Law in Honour of Sir Gerald Gordon
Essays in Criminal Law in Honour of Sir Gerald Gordon

Author: James Chalmers

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2010-10-31

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0748679294

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This collection of essays honours the work of Sir Gerald Gordon CBE QC LLD (1929-). In modern times few, if any, individuals can have been as important to a single country's criminal law as Sir Gerald has been to the criminal law of Scotland. His monumental work The Criminal Law of Scotland (1967) is the foundation of modern Scottish criminal law and is recognised internationally as a major contribution to academic work on the subject. Elsewhere, he has made significant contributions as an academic, judge and as a member of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission. Reflecting the academic rigour and practical application of Sir Gerald's work, this volume includes essays on criminal law theory, substantive law and evidence and procedure by practitioners and academics within and outside of Scotland, including contributions from England, Ireland and the USA.

Homicide in Criminal Law
Homicide in Criminal Law

Author: Alan Reed

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-03

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 1351016296

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This volume presents a leading contribution to the substantive arena relating to homicide in the criminal law. In broad terms, the ambit of homicide standardisations in extant law is contestable and opaque. This book provides a logical template to focus the debate. The overall concept addresses three specific elements within this arena, embracing an overarching synergy between them. This edifice engages in an examination of UK provisions, and in contrasting these provisions against alternative domestic jurisdictions as well as comparative contributions addressing a particularised research grid for content. The comparative chapters provide a wider background of how other legal systems treat a variety of specialised issues relating to homicide in the context of the criminal law. The debate in relation to homicide continues apace for academics, practitioners and within the criminal justice system. Having expert descriptions of the wider issues surrounding the particular discussion and of other legal systems’ approaches serves to stimulate and inform that debate. This collection will be a major source of reference for future discussion.

Inchoate Crimes
Inchoate Crimes

Author: Dr. Sarah Christie

Publisher: W. Green & Son

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780414013902

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Inchoate crimes - attempts, incitement and conspiracy - are a complex area of law, affected by both common law doctrine and statutory regimes. Inchoate Crimes provides much needed guidance on the subject. The author draws on developed doctrines in other relevant jurisdictions to suggest alternative approaches for Scots law. This title also combines substantive material with discussion on the nature and justification for the punishment of such crimes. It should assist criminal lawyers in everyday practice by explaining the current state of Scots law surrounding inchoate crimes and suggesting alternative approaches where Scottish authority is deficient or entirely absent.

A Despotism of Law
A Despotism of Law

Author: Radhika Singha

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13:

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This volume deals with law-making as a cultural enterprise in which the colonial state had to draw upon existing normative codes of rank, status and gender, and re-order them to a new and more exclusive definition of the state's sovereign right.

Criminal Law, Tradition and Legal Order
Criminal Law, Tradition and Legal Order

Author: Lindsay Farmer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0521553202

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This book examines the relationship between legal tradition and national identity to offer a critical and historical perspective on the study of criminal law. It develops a radically different approach to questions of responsibility and subjectivity, and was among the first studies to combine appreciation of the institutional and historical context in which criminal law is practised with a critical understanding of the law itself. Applying contemporary social theory to the particular case of nineteenth-century Scottish law, Lindsay Farmer is able to develop a critique of modern criminal law theory in general. He traces the development of the modern characteristics of criminal law and legal order, tracing the relationship between legal practice and national culture, and showing how contemporary criminal law theory fundamentally misrepresents the character of modern criminal justice.