Criminal Law (Books and Journals)

• Pauline M. Callow

• Pauline M. Callow

• Patricia Lees
• Eleanor Laws

• Thomas Raphael QC

• Matthew Richardson

• Laura Saunsbury
• Nick Doherty

• Neal Geach
• Christopher Monaghan

• James Youngblood

• Stephen Parmentier
• Elmar G.M. Weitekamp
• Mathieu Deflem

• William H. Fisher

• Southampton Student Law Review

This article seeks to explore the extent to which the GDPR sufficiently supports data subjects in obtaining compensation and redress for harms suffered by GDPR breaches. It first considers the relevant legal and normative framework of data protection under the GDPR, it then discusses the specific facts of this case including Uber's wrongdoing. This is followed by discussion of data subject rights

• Southampton Student Law Review

This article examines the implications of the Supreme Court's decision in Versloot Dredging BV v HDI Gerling Industrie Versicherung AG (The DC Merwestone), which abolished the fraudulent devices rule in English insurance law. The Supreme Court decision represents a principled recalibration of the law governing dishonest claims conduct rather than an overextension of protection for insureds. The...

• Southampton Student Law Review

• Southampton Student Law Review

Surrogacy in the UK is governed by a restrictive legal framework that prioritises surrogate autonomy and child welfare but creates significant challenges for intended parents (IPs). This paper critically examines whether the current statutory framework adequately accommodates contemporary surrogacy practices. It analyses the legislative scheme under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008

• Southampton Student Law Review

England and Wales maintain one of the lowest minimum ages of criminal responsibility (MACR) in Europe at ten. This article critically evaluates the proposal to raise the MACR to eighteen by employing a two-stage analytical framework. The first stage applies an immunity-based analysis to determine whether early criminalisation is normatively defensible. The second applies a capacity-based analysis

• Southampton Student Law Review

• Southampton Student Law Review

This paper evaluates whether UK Immigration law effectively balances human rights with the need for orderly control and management of migration. It examines the impact of Brexit, particularly with the removal of free movement, it then analyses key statutes, including the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 and the Illegal Migration Act 2023. The paper then further evaluates the role of the 1951...

• Southampton Student Law Review

Judicial diversity has been a goal that is yet to be achieved, with the history of exclusion still haunting the judiciary today. This dissertation will begin by gaining a deeper understanding of judicial diversity by depicting its aims and arguments; then exploring the history of the judiciary and critically analysing the extent of success from past legislative and structural reforms. In the...

• Southampton Student Law Review

Legal positivism has long been hailed as providing a cogent account of the institutional aspect of law. This article expands upon and defends this view while rebutting the common claim that positivism fails to make sense of law's moral aspect. Section one establishes the conceptual boundaries between the institutional and moral aspects of law. Section two demonstrates how Hartian positivism...

• Southampton Student Law Review

This article analyses how far the NHS considers patient autonomy within English medical law, examining autonomy, resource allocation and consent to treatment. This essay argues that, while the NHS and courts broadly uphold patient autonomy through the right to refuse treatment, the informed consent framework and the recognition of bodily integrity, it remains subject to significant safeguarding...

• Southampton Student Law Review

Following Donald Trump's re-election as President of the United States in 2024, he has engaged in an unprecedented campaign control to independent agencies. This dissertation examines the constitutionality of agency independence in the US, specifically answering whether the President possesses an illimitable power to remove agency heads at-will. While the Supreme Court embraced the Unitary...

• Southampton Student Law Review

• Southampton Student Law Review

This article aims to give an overview of what the abolition of the fraudulent devices rule means for modern-day insurance claims. Specifically, the article argues that it is a proportionate response considering the changes in information asymmetry. To demonstrate it is a proportionate response, the article analyses the historical function of good faith and information asymmetry within insurance (a

• Southampton Student Law Review

This article critically evaluates the UK's surrogacy framework, arguing that the governing statutes, the Surrogacy Arrangements Act (SAA) 1985 and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (HFEA) 2008, are no longer fit for purpose. By examining the 'judicial stretching' of time limits, consent requirements, and payment authorisations, the author posits that the courts have become involuntary...

• Southampton Student Law Review

This case comment discusses the landmark agency law case of Watteau v Fenwick and how it set a controversial precedent that principals can be legally bound by an agent's actions beyond the agent's authority. The comment discusses how these precedents lack clear common-law authority and, remarkably, contradict previous judges' foundational reasoning in agency law cases. Although this precedent has

• Southampton Student Law Review

This research paper critically examines the international response timeline in attempting to regulate the rising armed conflict in Rwanda. It explores the United Nations' bureaucratic structure and its inefficiency to respond and regulate armed conflict. Following this, the paper highlights an example of the result of the lack of international response which left a large proportion of civilians...

• Southampton Student Law Review

This article evaluates the potential for a pan-Asian human rights system through a comparative analysis of European, Inter-American, and African regional frameworks. While Europe demonstrates strong judicial enforcement, the Americas emphasize remedial and transformative jurisprudence, and Africa integrates socio-economic and collective rights into its normative architecture, Asia remains without

• Southampton Student Law Review

This article critiques ChatGPT's explanation of vicarious liability and its application to the fictional case of Martin v Fleet, showing how large language models (LLMs) tend to present a definitive response to legal questions in areas of the law that have scope for interpretation, policy influence, and contestation. It highlights the strengths in ChatGPT's summary but also where its weaknesses...

• Southampton Student Law Review

• Southampton Student Law Review

This article responds to the criticism that, whilst legal positivism can account for the institutional aspects of law, it fails to accurately account for the moral aspects. In response, the article argues legal positivism can make sense of both the institutional and moral aspects of law. This is because the article aims to show that law has no necessary connection to morality at all. By...

• Southampton Student Law Review

This article examines and analyses the statement that regulating warfare on the ground is impossible and that suffering in armed conflict is inevitable, addressing the quietly growing legal issues around the introduction of gamified military systems, in particular Ukraine's 'Army of Drones' initiative. It argues that a lack of structure and International Humanitarian Law (IHL) consideration...

• Sexual Offences Referencer (Third Edition)

• Sexual Offences Referencer (Third Edition)

• Sexual Offences Referencer (Third Edition)

• Sexual Offences Referencer (Third Edition)

• Sexual Offences Referencer (Third Edition)

• Sexual Offences Referencer (Third Edition)

• Sexual Offences Referencer (Third Edition)

• Sexual Offences Referencer (Third Edition)

• Sexual Offences Referencer (Third Edition)