Master criminal mens rea principles, including direct and oblique intent, subjective recklessness, dishonesty and malice.
Examine criminal conduct requirements, automatism, omissions, causation, secondary liability after Jogee and corporate crime.
Master inchoate offences under the Serious Crime Act 2007, statutory and common law conspiracy, and criminal attempts.
Review general defences in criminal law, including mistake, intoxication, duress, necessity, self-defence and infancy.
Master homicide offences, including murder, voluntary and involuntary manslaughter, infanticide, DVCVA s. 5 and suicide.
Master Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 offences, including possession, supply, PWITS, production, occupiers and statutory defences.
Examine MDA 1971 incitement, police powers, Travel Restriction Orders, and the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016.
Master Firearms Act 1968 definitions, certificates, relevant accessories under s. 2A, transfers, RIFs and prohibited weapons.
Master criminal use of firearms, public carrying, young persons restrictions, s. 21 prohibitions and police powers.
Master offensive weapons, bladed articles and corrosive substances in public places and schools, threats and search powers.
Examine prohibited offensive weapons in private, flick knives, combat knife marketing, underage sales and remote delivery.
Master racially and religiously aggravated offences under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and Sentencing Act 2020 s. 66.
Master the statutory and common law rules governing assault, battery, domestic time limits and valid consent.
Examine OAPA 1861 offences, emergency worker assaults, poisoning, threats to kill and non-fatal strangulation.
Review common law kidnapping, false imprisonment and Modern Slavery Act 2015 offences and statutory defences.
Master lifelong complainant anonymity, rape, assault by penetration, sexual assault and consent presumptions.
Examine mental disorder offences, prostitution, adult incest, voyeurism, intimate images and extreme pornography.
Review child sexual offences under 13 and under 16, abuse of trust, familial abuse and indecent or prohibited images.
Master child abduction under the CAA 1984, child cruelty under the CYPA 1933, EPOs, police protection and recovery.
Examine theft, robbery, blackmail, handling stolen goods, making off without payment and POCA money laundering.
Master burglary, aggravated burglary WIFE articles, TWOC, aggravated vehicle-taking, vehicle interference and s. 25.
Review Fraud Act 2006 offences by false representation, non-disclosure and abuse of position, plus false accounting.
Master simple and aggravated criminal damage, arson, lawful excuses, threats, mode of trial and goods contamination.