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Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) On 9 July Part 1 of the report was published, dealing with reform measures. Here, Sir Leveson proposed a number of changes to reduce the pressure on the criminal justice system. What attracted the most media attentio…

The Faculty is delighted at the announcement that Nicky Padfield, Emeritus Professor of Criminal and Penal Justice at the Law Faculty, has been appointed as one of a panel of experts appointed to support a new Government criminal sentencing review, which was announced yesterday. The review, chaired by former Conservative justice secretary David Gau…

Bloomsbury Professional published in June the second edition of A Practitioner's Guide to Ancillary Orders in Criminal Courts by Elaine Freer and Ryan Evans. A Practitioner's Guide to Ancillary Orders in Criminal Courts sets out the law, application and analysis relating to ancillary orders that are available to criminal courts. It covers orders av…

The law must be toughened up to make intentionally deceiving a person into engaging in sexual activity a crime, according to a new report published today by the Criminal Law Reform Now Network (CLRN Network) (co-directed by Dr Jonathan Rogers). The report calls for a change to the law, which would make deceiving a person to induce them into sexual …

On 20 January JUSTICE published their report on A Parole System fit for Purpose, chaired by the Faculty's Professor Nicky Padfield. A working party was appointed in April 2021 to coincide with the Government’s 'Root and Branch of Review of parole', which was expected to report in the summer. But the Government’s review has still not been published …

Routledge has published Sentencing: New Trajectories in Law by Dr Elaine Freer. This book examines the process and purpose of sentencing in the criminal justice system, beyond the confines of its legalistic aspects. Sentencing is the process that concludes any criminal trial that ends with the defendant being convicted, and any hearing in which a …

Hart Publishing has published Landmark Cases in Criminal Law edited by Henry Mares, Phil Handler, and Ian Williams. The volume contains chapters by many Faculty members (Professor Sir John Baker, Professor David Ibbetson, Professor John Spencer, Dr Findlay Stark, and Henry Mares) and former members (Professor Matt Dyson (now Oxford) and Dr Ian Will…

Cambridge University Press has published Culpable Carelessness: Recklessness and Negligence in the Criminal Law by Dr Findlay Stark. The question of when a person is culpable for taking an unjustified risk of harm has long been controversial in Anglo-American criminal law doctrine and theory. This survey of the approaches adopted in England and Wal…

Hart Publishing, Oxford, has published the sixth edition of Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine by Professor Andrew Simester, Professor John Spencer, Dr Findlay Stark, Professor Robert Sullivan and Professor Graham Virgo. This is the new edition of the leading textbook on criminal law by Simester and Sullivan, now co-written w…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published the third edition of Evidence of Bad Character by Professor John Spencer. This is the third edition of J R Spencer's now well established book which seeks to explain this area of law for the benefit of judges, criminal practitioners and academics teaching the law of evidence. In t…