In recent years, the incidence of wrongful convictions has become a matter of public concern...

This paper analyses the concept of fairness and its role in relation to the investigation...

This paper surveys the legislation governing criminal procedure in the jurisdictions of Melanesia, Micronesia and...

This paper examines the significance of two recent decisions of the High Court of Australia...

This article explores the boundaries between, on the one hand, controlled operations and activities under...

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Difficult legal issues have arisen in recent cases concerning the separation of conjoined...

This paper examines principles of criminal responsibility in those jurisdictions of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia...

This paper reviews the design of objective tests of criminal responsibility for serious offences. It...

[extract] We have never accepted at Bond that good research and scholarship is an excuse...

[extract] The objectives of this article are to review the dominance in the common law...

This review focuses on decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada with respect to substantive...

This paper is primarily concerned with the function of the law of criminal responsibility or...

This article focuses on recent decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada relating to the...

Criminal law in Australia, as in most Federal countries, is a matter of regional jurisdiction....

The concern of this article is the theory of exculpatory defences in the criminal law...

Despite difficulties associated with the law of causation, it could be much clearer than it...

This article presents a theory of how section 7 of the Charter of Rights and...

This is a study of the decisions of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal on the...

[extract] Our inherited English constitutional tradition has adopted a Janus-faced stance towards the relationship between...

[extract] It appears to be widely believed that the Criminal Code does not at present...

[extract] All federal systems must deal with the problem of legal conflict in areas where...

[extract] Examination of mens rea has traditionally focussed on the concepts of intention and of...

This article’s main objective is to dispel the notion that the rules governing the intoxication...

[extract] The present discussion focuses upon ignorance of wrong as a ground for the insanity...

The interaction of federal and provincial law on family maintenance involves two major areas of...

The present analysis is directed to the scope of federal jurisdiction and excludes the interaction...

Under the constitutional rule of federal paramountcy, provincial enactments or orders will be inoperative to...

There are few more important but neglected subjects in legal theory than the division of...

In order to set the constitutional foundation for custody orders and reveal the issues related...

[extract] Jurisprudence today is bedevilled, as much as it ever was, by divergences of approach....

This book provides a comprehensive set of materials on the criminal law of Queensland and...

Principles of Criminal Law explores the general principles underlying the law of criminal culpability in...