By very kind permission of Hart Publishing, and as a result of the initiative of Andrew Simester, I reproduce here some of the most significant casenotes on recent criminal law cases that were originally published on the companion website to Simester and Sullivan’s Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine:

B v DPP (strict liability)

R v G (recklessness)

R v Hasan (duress)

R v Hinks (theft)

R v Martin (Anthony), Shaw v R (self-defence)

R v Wacker (manslaughter)

Re A (necessity)