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.

Saturday, October 28, 2017

Provoking thought - a new issue of NZCLR

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You can, on reading a new issue of a law journal, be provoked into thought. Not always, but the latest New Zealand Criminal Law Review, [20...

Monday, October 09, 2017

Are obvious opinions irrelevant or just unhelpful?

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A witness who gives the court an opinion may have no better information than that already available to the court, and may be in no better p...

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Beyond reasonable doubt

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We may agree on what something is, even if we disagree on how it should be described. We may both be looking at a circle; you may describe ...

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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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