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‘The meaning of recklessness in the criminal law and whether it

should contain an objective element’

Dori Kimel

Provides a detailed analysis of the decision in Caldwell, its effects (in eg Elliott)

and the decision of the House of Lords to overrule it in R v G.

[2004] LQR 548

‘Banksy’s graffiti: a not-so-simple case of criminal damage’

Ian Edwards

The author takes the reader through the actus reus and mens reaelements of

criminal damage and applies them (or not) to the case of a graffiti artist.

(2009) 73(4) J Crim L 345