This textbook is an introduction to more advanced writings on criminal law, primarily
designed to allow students to think critically and analyse specific topics. Each chapter is …

The provocation defence has been the subject of legislative reform in England and Australia
over the past 10 years. In England, it was abolished by section 56 of the Coroners and …

Criminal law has struggled to keep pace with developments in psychiatry, both in
substantive and procedural terms, and it is widely recognised that increased inter …

This article explores the criminal law's response to cases of 'mercy killing'or assisting
suicide, in which relatives or friends act outside the law to end the suffering of a loved one …

This article considers the question of whether corporate entities can benefit from the criminal-
law defence of duress. The excuse of duress is accorded in recognition of the defendant's …

The label 'crime of passion'has traditionally been given to homicides committed in a fit of
jealousy by a spouse or partner. However, if the word 'passion'is taken in its historic sense to …

A defendant who has committed a so called 'mercy killing', meaning that they killed a loved
one to end their suffering from some kind of painful or terminal illness or disease, has no …

The time is ripe for a review of partial defences to murder within a domestic and comparative
contextualisation. For a long time the issues of loss of control (formerly transmogrified as …

In the debate on euthanasia or assisted dying, many different arguments have been
advanced either for or against legal reform in the academic literature, and much …