fgs23@cam.ac.uk
LLB (Hons) (Aberd), LLM (Aberd), MA (Cantab (St. B.II.2)), PhD (Edin)
University Lecturer in Law; Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Law; Deputy Director, Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice
Interests
Criminal law theory and doctrine (including criminal procedure and evidence). Legal, moral and political philosophy.
CV / Biography
*Please note that I am on sabbatical leave for the academic year 2018-19*
I have taught at Cambridge since January 2012, been the Deputy Director of the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice since January 2016, and held the post of Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Law since September 2016.
I am the author of a monograph - Culpable Carelessness: Recklessness and Negligence in the Criminal Law (CUP, 2016) - and an author/editor of the sixth edition of Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine (Hart/Bloomsbury, 2016). Culpable Carelessness has been reviewed by Dr Alexander Sarch (Surrey) (Criminal Law and Philosophy (Online First)), Professor Jonathan Herring (Oxford) ((2018) 134 Law Quarterly Review 151-153), and Dr Andrew Cornford (Edinburgh) ([2018] Criminal Law Review 689-691).
From 2014-2015, I was a member of the Academic Expert Group advising the Scottish Government's Post-Corroboration Safeguards Review (chaired by Lord Bonomy). Our report is available to read here.
I have sat on the editorial board of the Cambridge Law Journal (where I am the note editor with responsibility for criminal law and procedure) since October 2015, and joined the editorial board of the Criminal Law Review in June 2017.
I am an Academic Door Tenant at 23 Essex Street, and have given talks to practitioners on a range of topics.
I am happy to supervise doctoral students in any area of criminal law, procedure and evidence. My current doctoral student (co-supervised with Dr Justice Tankebe, Institute of Criminology) is Sara Trainor.
Publications
Books
"Culpable Carelessness: Recklessness and Negligence in the Criminal Law" (Cambridge University Press)
Published:
Oct 2016
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13:
9781107038905
"Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine" (Hart) 6th Edition
Published:
Sep 2016
Publisher:
Hart
ISBN 13:
9781849467223
Articles
"Reckless Manslaughter " [2017] Criminal Law Review 763-784
Citation:
[2017] Criminal Law Review 763-784
Published:
Oct 2017
"The Demise of 'Parasitic Accessorial Liability': Substantive Judicial Law Reform, Not Common Law Housekeeping" (2016) 75(3) Cambridge Law Journal 550-579
Citation:
(2016) 75(3) Cambridge Law Journal 550-579
Published:
Nov 2016
DOI:
10.1017/S0008197316000611
"Necessity and Nicklinson" [2013] Criminal Law Review 949-965
Citation:
[2013] Criminal Law Review 949-965
Published:
Dec 2013
"Wiping the Slate Clean: Reforming Scots Law's Approach to Evidence of the Accused's Bad Character" (2013) 76 Modern Law Review 346-369
Citation:
(2013) 76 Modern Law Review 346-369
Published:
Mar 2013
"It's Only Words: On Meaning and Mens Rea" (2013) 72 Cambridge Law Journal 155-177
Citation:
(2013) 72 Cambridge Law Journal 155-177
Published:
Mar 2013
"Rethinking Recklessness" 2011 Juridical Review 163-203
Citation:
2011 Juridical Review 163-203
Published:
Oct 2011
"Moral Legitimacy and Disclosure Appeals" (2010) 14 Edinburgh Law Review 205-224
Citation:
(2010) 14 Edinburgh Law Review 205-224
Published:
May 2010
"Breaking Down Brennan" 2009 Juridical Review 155-170
Citation:
2009 Juridical Review 155-170
Published:
Jan 2009
Book Chapters
"R v Howe (1987)" in Henry Mares, Ian Williams and Phil Handler (Eds),, Landmark Cases in Criminal Law (Hart Publishing)
Publisher:
Hart Publishing
Published Date:
Dec 2016
ISBN 13:
9781849466899
"Scotland: A Plea for Consistency (with Fiona Leverick)" in Stephen Thaman, Exclusionary Rules in Comparative Law (Springer) (Ed), pp. 69-92
Publisher:
Springer
Pages:
69-92
Published Date:
Feb 2013
ISBN 13:
978-94-007-5347-1
"Corporate Criminal Liability in Scotland: the Problems with a Piecemeal Approach" in Mark Pieth and Radha Ivory, Corporate Criminal Liability: Emergence, Convergence and Risk (Springer) (Ed), pp. 113-146
Publisher:
Springer
Pages:
113-146
Published Date:
Jun 2011
ISBN 13:
978-94-007-0673-6
Book Reviews
KK Ferzan and SJ Morse (eds), Legal, Moral, and Metaphysical Truths: The Philosophy of Michael S Moore (2017) 133 Law Quarterly Review 161-163
Published:
Jan 2017
L Farmer, Making the Modern Criminal Law: Criminalization and Social Order (2016) 132 Law Quarterly Review 513-516
Published:
Jul 2016
A Ashworth, L Zedner and P Tomlin (eds), Prevention and the Limits of the Criminal Law (2016) 10(2) Criminal Law and Philosophy 389-394
Published:
Apr 2016
DOI:
10.1007/s11572-014-9313-6
M Redmayne, Character in the Criminal Trial [2015] 6 Archbold Review 9
Published:
May 2015
P Crofts, Wickedness and Crime: Laws of Homicide and Malice (2014) 73 Cambridge Law Journal 224-228
Published:
Mar 2014
A Ashworth, Positive Obligations in Criminal Law (2014) 73 Cambridge Law Journal 220-224
Published:
Mar 2014
ME Badar, The Concept of Mens Rea in International Criminal Law (2014) 18 Edinburgh Law Review 155-156
Published:
Jan 2014
L Zedner and JV Roberts (eds), Principles and Values in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: Essays in Honour of Andrew Ashworth (2013) 72 Cambridge Law Journal 217-221
Published:
Mar 2013
ID Macphail, Scottish Criminal Evidence: Procedure and Practice 2013 SCOLAG 41
Published:
Jan 2013
F Tanguay-Renaud and J Stribopoulous (eds), Rethinking Criminal Law Theory: New Canadian Perspectives in the Philosophy of Domestic, Transnational and International Criminal Law (2012) 16(3) Edinburgh Law Review 464-466
Published:
Sep 2012
AP Simester and A von Hirsch, Crimes, Harms and Wrongs: On the Principles of Criminalisation (2012) 21 Social & Legal Studies 259-262
Published:
Jun 2012
R Cruft et al (eds), Crime, Punishment and Responsibility: The Jurisprudence of Antony Duff (2012) 16 Edinburgh Law Review 293-294
Published:
May 2012
RA Duff, Answering for Crime: Responsibility and Liability in the Criminal Law (2011) 20 Social & Legal Studies 409-412
Published:
Sep 2011
J Chalmers et al (eds), Essays in Criminal Law in Honour of Sir Gerald Gordon (2011) 15 Edinburgh Law Review 328-329
Published:
May 2011
A Cubie, Scots Criminal Law (3rd edn) 2011 SCOLAG 27
Published:
Jan 2011
D Boonin, The Problem of Punishment (2010) 19 Social & Legal Studies 256-258
Published:
Jun 2010
Case Notes
Bringing the Background to the Fore in Sexual History Evidence [2017] 8 Archbold Review 4-8
Published:
Oct 2017
The Taming of Jogee? (2017) 76(1) CLJ 4-7
Published:
Mar 2017
The Mens Rea of a Criminal Attempt [2014] 3 Archbold Review 7-9
Published:
Apr 2014
Prior Fault (2014) 73 Cambridge Law Journal 8-11
Published:
Mar 2014
Necessity and Policy in R (Nicklinson) v Ministry of Justice (2014) 18 Edinburgh Law Review 104-109
Published:
Jan 2014
Encouraging or Assisting Clarity? (2013) 72 Cambridge Law Journal 497-501
Published:
Nov 2013
The Dairy, the Herdsman and the Gangmaster (2013) 72 Cambridge Law Journal 247-250
Published:
Jul 2013
'A Most Difficult Case': On the Ratio of Gnango (2013) 2(1) Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law 60-66
Published:
Apr 2013
The Demise of the Private Prosecution? (2013) 72 Cambridge Law Journal 7-11
Published:
Mar 2013
Reconciling the Irreconcilable? (2012) 71 Cambridge Law Journal 475-478
Published:
Nov 2012
Bad Character, Bad Answer (2012) 16 Edinburgh Law Review 420-425
Published:
Sep 2012
Killing the Unfaithful (2012) 71 Cambridge Law Journal 260-263
Published:
Jun 2012
A Perfectly Unreasonable Decision: Jenkins v HM Advocate (2012) 16 Edinburgh Law Review 86-92
Published:
Jan 2012
The Consequences of Cadder (2011) 15 Edinburgh Law Review 293-298
Published:
May 2011
The Court, Coherence and Criminal Appeals 2011 Scots Law Times (News) 51-55
Published:
Feb 2011
Bowes v McGowan: Cause for Fear and Alarm 2010 Scottish Criminal Law 721-727
Published:
Oct 2010
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Entrapment? Jones and Doyle v HM Advocate (with Fiona Leverick) (2010) 14 Edinburgh Law Review 467-472
Published:
Sep 2010
Breach of the Peace Revisited (Again) (2010) 14 Edinburgh Law Review 134-137
Published:
Jan 2010
Legislating the Duty of Disclosure (2009) 13 Edinburgh Law Review 493-497
Published:
Sep 2009
McInnes v HM Advocate: More Fuel for the Reformer's Fire? 2008 Scots Law Times (News) 261-264
Published:
Nov 2008
Missing MacKinlay? Capacity and the Supreme Court in R v Daley (2008) 52 Criminal Reports (6th) 278-282
Published:
Jan 2008
Reports
Post-corroboration Safeguards Review: Report of the Academic Expert Group
Published:
Oct 2014
Undercover Investigations in Scotland
Published:
Feb 2014
Body / Institution:
International Academy of Comparative Law
