Chapter 10 Key debates

Topic

Author/Academic

Viewpoint

Source

‘Might alone does not make right: justifying secondary liability’

Matthew Dyson

A proposal that the mens rea for accessorial liability should be recklessness.

[2015] Crim LR 967

‘Being an accessory to one’s own murder’

Sir Richard Buxton


Examines the nature of accessorial liability in the context of the Supreme Court’s


decision in Gnango [2012].

[2012] Crim LR 275

‘Joint enterprise liability is dead: long live accessorial liability’

G Virgo


A very helpful analysis of the language of accessorial and joint enterprise criminal


liability through a critique of Gnango [2012].

[2012] Crim LR 850

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