Essay Plan: ‘Murder is Only Committed by People Who Kill with the Intention that Their Victims Should Die, and the Law Should be Reformed to Reflect That.’
Essay Plan: ‘Involuntary Manslaughter Should be Reformed So There is Only One Category, Reckless Manslaughter.’ Discuss.
![Essay Plan: ‘The Meaning of Causation is Heavily Context Specific and...Parliament (or in Some Cases the Courts) May Apply Different Rules of Causation in Different Situations.’ R v Hughes [2013]. Does This Mean that the Law of Causation is Unprincipled?](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1725981862110-b973a134a0bd?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wxMTc3M3wwfDF8YWxsfDZ8fHx8fHwyfHwxNzI2MDQ3MTIyfA&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=1200)
Essay Plan: ‘The Meaning of Causation is Heavily Context Specific and...Parliament (or in Some Cases the Courts) May Apply Different Rules of Causation in Different Situations.’ R v Hughes [2013]. Does This Mean that the Law of Causation is Unprincipled?
Essay Plan: 'Properly Understood, Gross Negligence is Equal to Recklessness in Terms of Level of Culpability, Just as Foresight of Virtual Certainty is Equal to Intention in Terms of Level of Culpability.'
Essay Plan: ‘It is never fair to convict a person of an offence unless that person knew that she was or might be committing all the elements of the offence she is charged with.’ Discuss.
Problem Question: Criminal Law, No.18
Essay Plan: ‘Over the past 15 years, legislation and case law has succeeded in clarifying the meaning of consent as a key element of sexual offences.’ Discuss.
Essay Plan: How could the concept of consent be better defined than it currently is in sexual offences?
Problem Question: Criminal Law, No.17
Problem Question: Criminal Law, No.16
![Essay Plan: “If the law is restated by adopting a narrower definition of appropriation, [it] is likely to place beyond the reach of the criminal law dishonest persons who should be found guilty of theft”. Do you agree?](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1577401239170-897942555fb3?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wxMTc3M3wwfDF8c2VhcmNofDl8fHByb2JsZW0lMjB8ZW58MHx8fHwxNzI1OTEzODY5fDA&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=1200)
Essay Plan: “If the law is restated by adopting a narrower definition of appropriation, [it] is likely to place beyond the reach of the criminal law dishonest persons who should be found guilty of theft”. Do you agree?
Essay Plan: ‘There is no need for the element of “intention permanently to deprive” in the offence of theft, just as there is no need for the element of “dishonesty” in the offence of fraud. ‘Discuss.
Essay Plan: Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of either the defence of insanity, or the defence of diminished responsibility. Explain how the law could be improved.
