Unit name | Criminal Law |
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Unit code | LAWD10014 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | C/4 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
Unit director | Professor. Quick |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | University of Bristol Law School |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit introduces students to the basic principles of substantive English criminal law. Topics include: the elements of offences; homicide; non-fatal offences; accomplices and attempts; defences; property offences.
By the end of this unit a successful student will be able to:
30 x 50 minute lectures and 8 x 50 minute tutorials.
Formative assessment: one mid-sessional examination in January plus one other piece of formative work.
The (formative) mid-sessional exam is mandatory; the other formative assessment is optional.
Summative assessment: one three-hour examination in May/June, in which students answer 4 questions (at least one essay and at least one problem) from a choice of 8 questions. Students may take unannotated statutes into the examination.
The examination includes both problem type and essay type questions, designed to assess both whether students were able to understand and apply the law across the breadth of the syllabus, and whether they were able to think critically about it. The assessments will assess all of the intended learning outcomes for this unit.
• J. Herring, Criminal Law: Text, Cases and Materials (6th edition 2014, OUP) • A Ashworth and J Horder, Principles of Criminal Law (7th edition 2013, OUP) • C M V Clarkson and H M Keating Criminal Law: Texts and Materials (8th edition 2014, Sweet and Maxwell) • N Lacey, C Wells & O Quick Reconstructing Criminal Law: Text and Materials (4th edition 2010, Cambridge University Press) • Blackstone's Statutes on Criminal Law 2014-2015 ed., Peter Glazebrook (OUP)