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Gerald Gordon Seminar on Criminal Law    
The Festschrift
The Festschrift based on the 2009 seminar, Essays in Criminal Law in Honour of Sir Gerald Gordon, was published by Edinburgh University Press in late 2010. It forms part of the Edinburgh Studies in Law series.

The volume comprises the following papers:

1 Sir Gerald Gordon: An Appreciation
Christopher H W Gane

2 Corroboration and Distress: Some Crumbs from Under the Master’s Table
Lord Hope of Craighead

3 Child Defendants and the Doctrines of the Criminal Law
Andrew Ashworth

4 Codification of the Criminal Law
Eric Clive

5 Public and Private Wrongs
R A Duff and S E Marshall

6 The Idea of Principle in Scots Criminal Law
Lindsay Farmer

7 A Human Right to a Fair Criminal Law
Victor Tadros

8 The Pain of Pleasure: Consent and the Criminalisation of Sado-Masochistic “Assaults”
Sharon Cowan

9 The Mental Element in Modern Criminal Law
Peter Ferguson

10 Theft by Omission
Stuart P Green

11 Statutory Rape and Defilement in Ireland: Recent Developments
Finbarr McAuley

12 Don’t Look Back in Anger: The Partial Defence of Provocation in Scots Criminal Law
Claire McDiarmid

13 “The Most Heinous of All Crimes”: Reflections on the Structure of Homicide in Scots Law
Gerry Maher

14 Witness Anonymity in the Criminal Process
Ian Dennis

15 Disclosure Appeals: A Plea for Principle
Peter Duff

16 Crown Counsel: From Sir Archibald Alison to Lord Brand
Robert S Shiels

17 The Codification of Criminal Procedure
J R Spencer

18 The Summary Jurisdiction to Punish for Contempt of Court in Scotland
T Welsh

19 Sir Gerald Gordon: A Bibliography
Shona Wilson
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