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.

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Reviewing the Evidence Act 2006

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Well jurists, it’s only a month to go before your submissions on the New Zealand Law Commission’s Second Review of the Evidence Act 2006 ,...

Saturday, May 05, 2018

An admirable dissent

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On rare occasions you read a dissenting judgment that is reasoned with such brilliant clarity that you may bruise your hands in applauding....

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Coming to law from science

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“Chief Justice French’s background in science has been useful in expressing ideas. He has suggested that identifying elements of adminis...

Saturday, April 07, 2018

Kalbasi v Western Australia: analysing conviction appeals without Weiss

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In Kalbasi v Western Australia [2018] HCA 7 the Court split 4-3 on whether Mr Kalbasi’s conviction was a substantial miscarriage of justi...

Saturday, March 24, 2018

When judges get nasty

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It’s good to see the Chief Justice taking an interest in judicial bullying of counsel. I imagine there have been judicial bullies as l...

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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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