Publications by Dr Elaine Freer

Full list of publications by Dr Elaine Freer.

  • Elaine Freer, ‘The ‘Covid Fine’ and Fair Trial Rights’, in Covid-19 and Criminal Justice: Impact and Legacy in England and Wales (eds Ed Johnston), Routledge
  • Elaine Freer, ‘Behind Clerked Doors: A Ground Breaking Ethnography’, in Leading Works in the Legal Profession (eds Daniel Newman), Routledge
  • Elaine Freer, ‘Case Comment - R v Ayre’, 2025
  • Elaine Freer, ‘Leaving the Gloss Off: A critique of the appellate courts’ approach to reinterpretation of law cases’, [2022] 138 LQR 239
  • Elaine Freer, ‘Experts and pretenders: Examining possible responses to misconduct by experts in criminal trials in England and Wales’, [2020] E&P, 24(2), 180-207
  • Elaine Freer, ‘The new law on releasing terrorist offenders: is it acceptable in principle, and if so, will it achieve its intended purpose? (Legislative comment)’, (2020) Archbold Review, 3, 4-7
  • Elaine Freer, ‘We need to talk about Charlie: Putting the brakes on unlawful act manslaughter’, (2018) Criminal Law Review, 8, 612-632
  • Elaine Freer, ‘Driving force: dangerous driving and self-defence’, [2018] Cambridge Law Journal 77(1), 9-12
  • Elaine Freer, A.D. Johnson, ‘Overcrowding under the disciplinary umbrella: Challenges of investigating and punishing sexual misconduct in universities’, [2018] International Journal of Law in Context, 14(1), 1-21
  • Elaine Freer, ‘Couldn’t Tell You Even If I Wanted To? Anonymity of Journalists’ Sources, Voluntary Disclosure and Abuse of Process’, (2017) Journal of Criminal Law, 81(3), 167-176
  • Elaine Freer, ‘Punishment and Rehabilitation: Uneasy bedfellows under s.44 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013?’, (2017) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 50(3), 439-455
  • Elaine Freer, ‘IPP: How long is too long?’, (2017) Archbold Review, 3, 4-7
  • Elaine Freer, ‘Causing or allowing the death of a child: challenges to working out ‘which of you did it’?’, (2016) Criminal Law Review, 9, 616-624
  • Elaine Freer, ‘Yes, no, maybe – recent cases on consent and freedom to choose’, (2016) Archbold Review 1, 6-9
  • Elaine Freer, ‘Case in detail: R v Hunter’, (2015) Archbold Review 5, 4
  • Elaine Freer, ‘Lies, damned lies and [criminal] statistics’, (2014) Archbold Review 6, 6-9
  • Elaine Freer, ‘Bristow: A dangerous intervention?’, (2014) Archbold Review 1, 6-8
  • Elaine Freer, ‘First time lucky? Exploring whether first time offenders should be sentenced more leniently’, [2013] 77 JCL 163
  • Elaine Freer, ‘Courts: In camera or on camera?’, [2012] 176 CL&J 585
  • Elaine Freer, ‘From Chicago to Malta: possible explanations for avoiding jury service’, [2012] Arch Rev. 6, 6-7
  • Elaine Freer, ‘R v Gnango: The Curious Case of Bandana Man - Parts 1 and 2’, [2012] 176 CL&J 181 and 212
  • Elaine Freer, ‘Social mobility and socio-economic diversity in legal education: What can be learnt from an attempt to improve diversity at the Bar?’, 2016
  • Elaine Freer, ‘'12 Angry Men' (and women) and their smartphones’, 2016