Criminal Law: (Longman Law Series 7th edition)

Enhance understanding of criminal Law and clarify complex issues Criminal Law (Longman Law series), 7th Edition, by William Wilson, combines coverage of the core legal principles with discussion of the theories and academic debates that underpin the subject.Enhance your understanding of criminal law and make use of the reading references to pertinent academic articles, hypothetical case examples that clarify complex issues, and end-of-chapter summaries - paving the way for further studies. New to this edition: Two cases on consent in the context of non-fatal offences against the person - Melin (2019) qualifies Richardson (1999) on the effect of fraudulent misrepresentation on apparent consent; R v BM (2018) makes an important clarification of the need for non-clinical forms of body alteration to satisfy the public interest if they are to be lawful In Ivey v Genting (2017), the Supreme Court returned dishonesty to its pre Ghosh (1982) meaning Mitchell (2018) and Tas (2018), typify the p