Chapter 5 Key debates

Topic

Author/Academic

Viewpoint

Source

 ‘Offences against the person: into the 21st century’

 Michael Jefferson

 


Offers a critique of the OAPA 1861 and includes a proposed redraft of the Act.

 [2012] J Crim L 472

‘Reconsidering psychic assault’

Jeremy Horder

Critiques the current law on psychic assault.

 

[1998] Crim LR 392

 

‘Flogging live complainants and dead horses: We may no longer need


to be in bondage to Brown’

Peter Murphy

The judge in a trial dealing with the extent to which a person may consent to sadomasochistic


activity provides a commentary on the law.

[2011] Crim LR 758

‘Criminal law and the sexual transmission of HIV: R v Dica’

Matthew Weait

This article examines the role of the criminal law in regulating the transmission


of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Weait, widely regarded as the leading


academic on this issue, reviews the previous case law and evaluates the Court of


Appeal’s decision in detail.


(2005) 68(1) MLR 121

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