LAW7088

Modern criminal justice ( 6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL)

Leader: T.B.A.

Offered:
Not offered in 2005.

Synopsis: The operation of consent in criminal law, procedure and evidence will be examined. An interdisciplinary approach will enable students to use their special skills and interests in analysing the concept. Particular areas where consent is relevant include sterilisation, force feeding, refusal and withdrawal of treatment, living wills, euthanasia, identification, surgery, sport, sexual offences and the waiver of legal professional privilege and priest penitent privilege.

Objectives: On completion of this subject students should have (1) a detailed knowledge of how particular themes or policies are applied in substantive criminal law, procedure and evidence; (2) a capacity to draw on a variety of sources in exploring the underpinnnings of the criminal law and its interaction with religion, morality, ethics, philosophy and medicine; and (3) ratiocinative skills in exploring the inconsistencies and paradoxes of the criminal law when focused on a single concept applied in different circumstances to different categories of persons including victims, suspects and Crown officials.

Assessment: Research assignment (3000 words): 40% + Class participation, problem solving, debating: 10% + Supervised examination (1.5 hours): 50%