Criminal Law Research Area

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The History of Criminal Law

In looking to consider the criminal law we have in the UK it is interesting to note the distinction between wrongs to the whole community and wrongs against individuals had still not been established by the time of the Roman occupation and did not really materialise until the Norman Invasion of England in 1066. But the ‘State’ dispensing justice via the judiciary did not truly develop until the eighteenth century when European countries began maintaining their police services so the criminal law finally had the mechanisms for its effective enforcement as the law is now derived from all manner of sources as a reflection of its history. In looking to consider the criminal law we have in the UK it is interesting to note the distinction between wrongs to the whole community and wrongs against individuals had still not been established by the time of the Roman occupation and did not really materialise until the Norman Invasion of England in 1066. But the ‘State’ dispensing justice via the judiciary did not truly develop until the eighteenth century when European countries began maintaining their police services so the criminal law finally had the mechanisms for its effective enforcement as the law is now derived from all manner of sources as a reflection of its history.

 

Sections of interest for Criminal Law

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  • Crimes Against People - Click here to View
    • Murder
    • Corporate Manslaughter
    • Incorporating the Charging Standard – Examples of Offences
    • Self-defence & the Prevention of Crime
    • Intentional or Reckless Transmission of Sexual Infection
Table of Cases - Ciminal Law
Allard v. Selfridge Ltd [1925] 1 KB 129
Attorney General’s Reference (No. 6 of 1980) [1981] QB 715, CA
Attorney General’s Reference No. 3 of 1992 (1994) 2 All ER 121
Attorney General’s Reference No 3 of 1994 (1997) 3 All ER 936
Attorney General’s Reference No. 3 of 2003 [2004] EWCA 868
Bembridge (1783) 3 Doug KB 32
Bratty v. Attorney General for Northern Ireland [1963] AC 386
DPP v. Parmenter [1992] 1 A.C 699
Huckerby v. Elliott (1970) 1 All ER 189
Kent v. Griffiths & others (2001) 1 QB 36
Palmer v. R [1971] AC 814
Pao On v. Lau Yiu Long [1980] AC 614
Practice Direction (Conspiracy) [1977] 1 WLR 537
R v. Adomako (1994) 3 All ER 79
R v. B [2006] EWCA Crim 2945, CA
R v. Baker (1996) The Times, 26th November
R v. Burgess [1991] 2 WLR 1206
R v. Burstow [1998] AC 147
R v. Bush [2003] 2 Cr App R (S) 117
R v. Byrne (1960) 44 Cr App R 246
R v. Caldwell [1982] AC 341
R v. Cheshire (1991) 3 AER 670
R v. Clarke [1972] 1 All ER 219
R v. Claydon [2006] 1 Cr.App.R. 20
R v. Clegg (1995) 1 AC 482, HL
R v. Cotter & Others [2000] TLR
R v. Dudley & Stephens (1884) 14 QBD 273
R v. Dunn [2003] 2 Cr.App.R.(S)
R v. Gallagher [1963] AC 349
R v. Gotts [1992] 2 WLR 284
R v. Gurney (1867) 10 Cox CC 550
R v. Howe [1987] AC 417.
R v. Khan [1990] 2 All ER 783
R v. Kingston [1995] 2 AC 355
R v. LeBrun (1991) 4 AER 673
R v. Pommell [1995] 2 Cr App R 607
R v. Runting (1989) 89 Cr App R 243
R v. Sharp [1987] QB 853R v. Shivpuri [1986] 2 All ER 334
R v. Sullivan [1984] AC 156
R v. Sunshes Nkesha Pike-Williams [2004] EWCA Crim 2400
R v. W [2003] EWCA 1632
R v. Warne (1980) 2 Cr. App.R. (S) 42
R v. Whitaker [1914] 3 KB 1283
R v. Whitfield (1976) 63 Cr App R 39
R v. Willoughby (2004) EWCA Crim 3365
R v. Woollin [1999] 1 Cr App R 8 (HOL)
Sweet v. Parsley [1970] AC 132
Thabo Meli v. R (1954) 1 AER 373 (PC)
The Wagon Mound (No 1) [1961] AC 388
Webley v. Buxton [1977] 2 All ER 595
Woolmington v. DPP [1935] AC 462
Yip Chiu-Cheung v. The Queen (1994) 2 All ER 924
Yorkshire Dale Steamship Co v. Minister of War Transport [1942] AC 691
Table of Statutes - Criminal Law
Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001
Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
Criminal Attempts Act 1981
Criminal Justice Act 1988
Criminal Law Act 1967
Criminal Law Act 1977
Customs and Excise Management Act 1979
Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
Homicide Act 1957
Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925
Law Reform (Year & a Day Rule) Act 1996
Licensing Act 1964
Local Government Act 1972
Mental Health Act 1983
Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
Offences Against the Person Act 1861
Perjury Act 1911
Prevention of Corruption Act 1906
Prevention of Corruption Act 1916
Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act 1889
Representation of the People Act 1983
Sale of Offices Act 1551
Sale of Offices Act 1809
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