Criminal Law in Ireland 2nd edition

Criminal Law: Cases and Commentary, Second Edition is a thoroughly revised, updated andexpanded edition of this now established criminal law text book staple. This Second Editionincludes new chapters on the following topics: Road Traffic Offences, Drugs Offences,Regulatory Offences and Victims’ Rights. Recent legislative changes are consideredincluding the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 and the Criminal Justice (Victims ofCrime) Act 2017, as well as significant Supreme Court cases in the areas of the presumptionof innocence (Forsey), reasonable access to a lawyer (Doyle), joint enterprise (Dekker), theright to silence (Sweeney), the exclusionary rule (JC) provocation (MacNamara), duress(Gleeson) and mistake (Casey).It provides students with a broad range of perspectives including formal case law, statutoryand constitutional provisions, academic commentaries and Law Reform Commission policyrecommendations. It combines domestic law with ECHR jurisprudence and persuasiveauthorities from other jurisdictions. Through a careful combination of the criminal rules alongwith excerpts from cases, articles, notes and texts, this book seeks to inform the user of theformal criminal law and provide a gateway to some of the more conceptual debates in thesubject area.