The full text of this note can be found in PDF form here. Criminal liability based on a failure to act, otherwise known as an omission, first requires a duty to act. Yet, when the criminal statute ...

Everyone is presumed to know the law, yet no one can be held criminally liable for violating a law that he or she cannot understand. The difficulty involved in trying to reconcile these two ...

This article is a comparative study of withdrawal as a defence to the criminal liability of an offender in Jordan (a civil law jurisdiction) and Australia (a common law jurisdiction). The analysis in ...