I hope, in the previous two posts, that I have persuaded you that you should default to explaining all the elements of a criminal offence in your assignments. Here, I want to give you some guidance on how to go about that. Again I will assume criminal law here, but this transfers to other multi-element Continue reading

*or other multi-part legal principle… This post follows on from the comment on the Auriol Grey case in the previous post. As a quick reminder, counsel for the prosecution, counsel for the defence, and the judge, all overlooked the need to demonstrate the elements of the unlawful act in Ms Grey’s manslaughter trial. This led Continue reading