Scottish Criminal Law Essentials

✍ Scribed by Claire McDiarmid

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 184
Series: Edinburgh Law Essentials
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Your user-friendly study and revision guide to Scots criminal law, written specially for students by a law lecturer with over 20 years of teaching experience

This clear and up-to-date study and revision guide draws on the Claire McDiarmid's extensive experience of teaching criminal law to new Scots law students. The new edition takes account of changes to the law in Defences, Homicide, Crimes against Public Order and Sexual Offences. Summary sections of Essential Facts and Essential Cases at the end of each chapter will help students to identify, understand and remember the key elements of the subject.

Changes to the law covered by the 3rd edition

Defences: Mental disorder, unfitness for trial
Homicide: wicked recklessness, diminished responsibility
Crimes against public order: threatening or abusive behaviour; stalking; offensive behaviour at regulated football matches and threatening communications
Sexual offences: Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
1 The Development of the Scottish System
2 Mental and Behavioural Elements
3 Crimes Against Property
4 Crimes of Dishonesty
5 Art and Part Liability
6 Inchoate Crime
7 Defences
8 Assault
9 Non-Fatal Crimes of Recklessness Against the Person
10 Homicide
11 Crimes Against Public Order
12 Crimes Against the Course of Justice
13 Sexual Offences
14 Statutory Offences
Index

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