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Ahmed v H.M Advocate, public harassment of women and girls and the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 section 38(1). (2022)
Journal Article
SHARP, L. 2022. Ahmed v H.M Advocate, public harassment of women and girls and the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 section 38(1). Juridical Review [online], 4, pages 197-211. Available from: http://legalresearch.westlaw.co.uk/

The Working Group on Misogyny in Criminal Justice in Scotland recommended in March 2022 that there should be a Misogyny and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act which would inter alia create a new statutory offence of public misogynistic harassment. This... Read More about Ahmed v H.M Advocate, public harassment of women and girls and the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 section 38(1)..

Extending the frontier of the Nigerian insanity defence: comparative analyses of the insanity defence in England and Scotland to offer alternative options for development. (2022)
Thesis
EZE, K.U. 2022. Extending the frontier of the Nigerian insanity defence: comparative analyses of the insanity defence in England and Scotland to offer alternative options for development. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-2071637

Criminal responsibility determines whom the law will punish. A person must be criminally responsible before a court can punish them. The situation is challenging when a defendant raises insanity as a defence to criminal responsibility, because not ev... Read More about Extending the frontier of the Nigerian insanity defence: comparative analyses of the insanity defence in England and Scotland to offer alternative options for development..

Challenges to prosecutorial discretion. (2016)
Journal Article
ARNELL, P. and SHARP, L. 2016. Challenges to prosecutorial discretion. Scots law times [online], 2016(21), pages 113-115. Available from: http://westlaw.co.uk

Considers challenges to prosecutorial discretion in light of the ECtHR decision in Da Silva v United Kingdom (5878/08) on whether UK authorities had failed, under ECHR art.2, to conduct an effective investigation into the fatal shooting by police off... Read More about Challenges to prosecutorial discretion..

The Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act Section 38: The implications of Paterson v Harvie. (2016)
Journal Article
SHARP, L. 2016. The Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act Section 38: The implications of Paterson v Harvie. Juridical review, 2, pages 117-128. Available from: http://www.westlaw.co.uk

Examines how the Scottish courts have interpreted the actus reus of the offence of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, under the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 s.38, which was introduced after the High Court of Justiciary... Read More about The Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act Section 38: The implications of Paterson v Harvie..