The Ouija board jury incident of 1994 is one of the most disconcerting in English legal history. In this first full-length treatment he emphasises the known facts, the constitutional dilemma of ...investigating even bizarre jury misbehaviour and how the trial involved one of the most serious murder cases of the decade in which two people were shot in cold blood.
Forensic investigators have statutory powers to take DNA samples directly from suspects' bodies in certain circumstances but sometimes the powers fall short, legally or practically Police may then ...look for samples that have become separated from their suspects for one reason or another. No jurisdiction currently bars or even regulates this practice, which is instead loosely governed by laws on property, consent and evidence. This article argues that this lack of regulation undermines the entire system of forensic procedure laws.
True criminal law ethics Jeremy Gans
University of Western Australia law review,
05/2019, Letnik:
45, Številka:
2
Journal Article
What duties do legal academic authors owe to the people involved in the cases they write about? This article explores recent suggestions on how to answer this question and draws on the author's ...experience in writing legal academic work - a true crime book on a semi-famous murder trial and a rape law article that narrated the facts of little-known cases in detail - to explore two particular dilemmas. First, when we write about living people, should we contact them as journalists do, in order to check details and provide them with a right of reply? Second, when we write about crime victims, should we write about matters that, if they were to read what we wrote, would likely distress them? New ethics guidelines suggest answers to these questions that many criminal law academics will find uncomfortable.
