Criminal Law Coursework Assignment

Critique the egg shell skull rule in light of the decisions in R v Roberts (1971) 56 Cr App R 95 ; R v Blaue [1975] 3 All ER 446 and R v Dawson [1985] 81 Cr App R 1500 Requirement: • Complete your coursework assignment on a policy-based criminal law through your own research • Your essay must be a maximum of 2000 words, inclusive of footnotes • You need to support your arguments with at least 30 authorities • Adopt OSCOLA for citations: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxlaw/oscola_4th_edn_hart_2012.pdf • You must cite good articles from authoritative sources e.g. Harvard, Oxford, Hong Kong Law journals. • Authorities should include English and Hong Kong, as well as American and Australian books, judicial decisions, policy documents and academic writings. Marking Criteria:: i) Analysis on how a principle of Hong Kong’s criminal law could be improved as law reform ii) Assignment will be assessed for analysis, research, reasoning, expression, citation and overall structure. iii) Students should describe the law as it should be, rather than merely the law as it is. Reading List: i) Michael Jackson (2003), Criminal Law in Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press ii) David Ormerod and Karl Laird (2015, 14th ed), Smith and Hogan’s Criminal Law, Oxford University Press iii) Victor Ho Wai-Kin (2011), Criminal Law in Hong Kong, Kluwer Law International