Criminal Law: Cases and Commentary, Second Edition is a thoroughly revised, updated and
expanded edition of this now established criminal law text book staple. This Second Edition
includes new chapters on the following topics: Road Traffic Offences, Drugs Offences,
Regulatory Offences and Victims' Rights. Recent legislative changes are considered
including the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 and the Criminal Justice (Victims of
Crime) Act 2017, as well as significant Supreme Court cases in the areas of the presumption
of innocence (Forsey), reasonable access to a lawyer (Doyle), joint enterprise (Dekker), the
right to silence (Sweeney), the exclusionary rule (JC) provocation (MacNamara), duress
(Gleeson) and mistake (Casey).
It provides students with a broad range of perspectives including formal case law, statutory
and constitutional provisions, academic commentaries and Law Reform Commission policy
recommendations. It combines domestic law with ECHR jurisprudence and persuasive
authorities from other jurisdictions. Through a careful combination of the criminal rules along
with excerpts from cases, articles, notes and texts, this book seeks to inform the user of the
formal criminal law and provide a gateway to some of the more conceptual debates in the
subject area.
