James Chalmers is Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow. He is the co-author of Walker and Walker: The Law of Evidence in Scotland (4th edition, 2015). Fiona Leverick is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Glasgow University. Lindsay Farmer is Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow.

• Preface; List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Table of Cases; Foreword by Lord Rodger of Earlsferry; 1. Sir Gerald Gordon: An Appreciation by Christopher Gane; 2. Corroboration and Distress: Some Crumbs from Under the Master’s Table by Lord Hope of Craighead; 3. Child Defendants and the Doctrines of the Criminal Law by Andrew Ashworth; 4. Codification of the Criminal Law by Eric Clive; 5. Public and Private Wrongs by R A Duff and S E Marshall; 6. The Idea of Principle in Scots Criminal Law by Lindsay Farmer; 7. A Human Right to a Fair Criminal Law by Victor Tadros; 8. The Pain of Pleasure: Consent and the Criminalisation of Sado-Masochistic ‘Assaults’ by Sharon Cowan; 9. The Mental Element in Modern Criminal Law by Peter Ferguson; 10. Theft by Omission by Stuart P Green; 11. Statutory Rape and Defilement in Ireland: Recent Developments by Finbarr McAuley; 12. Don’t Look Back in Anger: The Partial Defence of Provocation in Scots Criminal Law by Claire McDiarmid; 13. ‘The Most Heinous of All Crimes’: Reflections on the Structure of Homicide in Scots Law by Gerry Maher; 14. Witness Anonymity in the Criminal Process by Ian Dennis; 15. Disclosure Appeals: A Plea for Principle by Peter Duff; 16. Crown Counsel: From Sir Archibald Alison to Lord Brand by Robert S Shiels; 17. The Codification of Criminal Procedure by J R Spencer; 18. The Summary Jurisdiction to Punish for Contempt of Court in Scotland by T Welsh; 19. Sir Gerald Gordon: A Bibliography by Shona Wilson.

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