Articles tagged as Criminal Law
Latest Law Papers tagged as Criminal Law
Including law essays, dissertations, problem questions, case summaries, and law lectures, suitable for law students working towards their LLB / LLM qualifications or those studying for the new SQE.
R v Docherty [2016] UKSC 62
Case Summaries
Shaun Docherty was sentenced to imprisonment for public protection for serious knife attacks after that sentence had begun to be abolished. He argued that transitional provisions keeping it available for offenders convicted before the commencement date were unlawful under the European Convention on Human Rights and beyond the power conferred by the reforming statute. The […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
R v Golds (Supreme Court) [2016] UKSC 61
Case Summaries
The Supreme Court dismissed Mark Golds’s appeal against his conviction for murdering his partner. He had admitted the killing, and the only issue was whether diminished responsibility reduced the offence to manslaughter because an abnormality of mental functioning substantially impaired specified abilities. The Court held that “substantially” requires an impairment of real weight or importance, […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
R v Guraj [2016] UKSC 65
Case Summaries
The Supreme Court restored a confiscation order of £57,458 against Lodvik Guraj after the Court of Appeal had quashed it for procedural error. The sentencing judge had made forfeiture and deprivation orders too soon, and the Crown had then lost track of the confiscation proceedings for about a year. Those mistakes did not remove the […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
