| CODE | CRL1015 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Criminal Law: Offences | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Criminal Law | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit studies a number of criminal offences, divided into crimes and contraventions. The crimes studied comprise those contained in the Criminal Code including crimes against the person, forgery crimes against property and public safety including theft and fraud. Other crimes studied are those against the administration of justice. Study-Unit Aims: - Teaching the substantive offences in criminal law found in the Criminal Code by focusing on the main offences . The law will be examined together with explanation by jurists and leading case-law. - The principle aim is to ensure that students first of all understand the major substantive offences under Maltese criminal law. - The subsidiary aim is to ensure that students learn the required skills to understand, read, interpret and apply criminal law in general so that they may also be able to read, understand, apply and interpret other provisions of criminal law. - The interplay and importance of rules on interpretation with the aid to reference to jurists and case-law will also be taught. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Read and comprehend the main offences in criminal law fstudied in this study-unit; - Read and assess provisions of criminal law generally and understand the principle interplay in interpreting criminal law; - Demonstrate and explain the manner in which jurists and case-law assist in the interpretation of law. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Apply and interpret criminal law provisions to given facts or cases; - Assess a particular set of facts and apply substantive criminal law to these facts and determine the particular criminal offence and the general defences possible according to law. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: 1. Mamo: Notes on Criminal Law, University of Malta, Msida. 2. Criminal Code, Chapter 9, Laws of Malta. 3. Constitution of Malta. 4. The Interpretation Act, Chapter 249, Laws of Malta. Supplementary Readings: 1. David Ormerod and Karl Laird, Smith and Hogan's Criminal Law, Butterworths, 14th edition, May 2015. 2. Francesco Antolisei, Manuale di Diritto Penale, Giuffre’, 2013. 3. Andrew Ashworth and Jeremy Horder, Principles of Criminal Law, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Mary Muscat |
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