Criminal Law Casebook - Developments in leading appellate courts

Aimed at promoting the study of technical aspects of criminal law and procedure, this site considers selected cases from the top appeal courts of Australia, Canada, the UK, the USA, the European Court of Human Rights and New Zealand. From August 2004 there have been approximately 800 entries, including book reviews.

Friday, August 04, 2017

Ruminate on this!

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No doubt you enjoy puzzles: There is a group of animals (quadrupeds and birds), one third of which are sheep. One animal was examined a...

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Thursday, August 03, 2017

Legitimate presuppositions about guilt and innocence

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Before the evidence involving the defendant's acts in a case is considered an assumption may be made about the likelihood that the defe...

Monday, July 31, 2017

Assessing reasonable grounds to suspect

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Whether there were “reasonable grounds to suspect” the commission of an offence can be controversial. Recently our Court of Appeal has divi...

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Don Mathias: I practised as a barrister from December 1978 to retirement in February 2018. In 1980 I completed my PhD in criminal law. I have taught Advanced Criminal Law at the University of Auckland, and I wrote "Misuse of Drugs", our textbook on drug offences published by Thomson Reuters NZ Ltd. I was a contributing and updating author of "Adams on Criminal Law", and co-author of the first three editions of "Criminal Procedure in New Zealand" (Thomson Reuters, 3rd ed 2019).

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