Homicide Law
Discuss the current state of Homicide Law. Include in your discussion any relevant defences. Limit 3,000 words including footnotes and bibliography.
Rough Guide regarding this essay:
- This essay is asking you to discuss to what extent the distinction between murder and manslaughter in English Criminal Law adequately maps the mental fault elements required for these offences.
- It is also asking to consider whether also the defence of loss of self-control is enables this distinction between murder manslaughter to become evident.
- So after describing the relevant law, using case law and statutes you will be expected to have a critical reflection. This means you are expected to assess the limits of the law or its potentials and provide us with possible resolutions.
- Given the times that we are living we do not expect and extensive research into secondary literature. It will be good though if you manage to bring some secondary literature (i.e., not just cases and statutes) such as academic articles into the discussion.
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Assignment for Gothic Literature MAY 13:
- What impact did World War One have on the script and filming of ‘The Cabinet of Dr Caligari’?
- How did German Expressionism represent gothic trauma?
- Consider the political issues from the period of its writing in ‘Frankenstein’.
- How is science depicted either in Frankenstein or Whales’s filmic version. Choose one only.
- How did the Victorians create gardens of the dead?
- How does Poe deal with the theme of ‘dead’ women?
- In what ways does Poe create a new form of gothic experience?
- Is Dracula a horror story or a thriller or both and why?
- How does Stoker deal with the theme of the ‘new woman’ in Dracula?
8.In what ways and for what purposes did Curt Siodmak ‘re-invent’ the Wolfman?
- A free choice, but you must check with me first.
