Fitness to Plead

International and Comparative Perspectives
Herausgeber: Mackay, Ronnie; Brookbanks, Warren

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Produktbeschreibung

By comparing approaches to the doctrine of fitness to stand trial across several common law jurisdictions, the civil law regimes of Italy and the Netherlands, and under international law, this collection analyses the latest case law, uncovers common weaknesses in the varied legislative models, and identifies avenues for future reform.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 704g
• ISBN-13: 9780198788478
• ISBN-10: 0198788479
• Artikelnr.: 53022516

Autorenporträt

Ronnie Mackay is Professor of Criminal Policy and Mental Health at De Montfort University. Warren Brookbanks is Professor of Law at Auckland University of Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Ronnie Mackay and Warren Brookbanks: Introduction
* 2: Ronnie Mackay: The Development of Unfitness to Plead in English
Law
* 3: Rudi Fortson: Unfitness to Plead in England and Wales: A
Practitioner's View of a Plea in Evolution
* 4: Miranda Bevan and David Ormerod: Reforming the law of Unfitness to
Plead in England and Wales: A Recent History
* 5: Gerry Maher: Unfitness for trial in Scots Law
* 6: Gerry Ferguson: Unfit to Stand Trial: Canadian Law and Practice
* 7: Warren Brookbanks: The Development of Unfitness to Stand Trial in
New Zealand
* 8: Ian Freckelton: Fitness to Stand Trial Under Australian Law
* 9: Richard J. Bonnie: Fitness For Criminal Adjudication: The Emerging
Significance of Decisional Competence in the United States
* 10: Stephen J. Morse: Involuntary Competence in United States
Criminal Law
* 11: Piet Hein van Kempen: The Right to Fair Preliminary Investigation
and Trial for Vulnerable Defendants: The Case of the Netherlands
* 12: Alberto Cadoppi and Mattia Celva: Competency to Stand Trial in
Italy
* 13: Ian Freckelton and Magda Karagiannakis: Fitness to Stand Trial
Under International Criminal Law
* 14: Ronnie Mackay and Warren Brookbanks: Conclusion