Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description


CODE LHM1002

 
TITLE Major Capital Trials and Penal Law in Malta

 
UM LEVEL 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course

 
MQF LEVEL 5

 
ECTS CREDITS 4

 
DEPARTMENT Legal History and Legal Research Methods

 
DESCRIPTION The study-unit will focus on the major criminal trials from 1854 onwards and such trials will be analysed within the context of the Criminal Code of the same year as it has evolved since then.

Study-unit Aims:

It aims to teach students how to apply the provisions of the Criminal Code to particular cases, to understand how the law can be interpreted in diverse ways and how the courts would have decided particular cases.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Knowledge & Understanding
By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

- write on the provisions of the Criminal Law;
- explain the provisions of Criminal Code as found in case law;
- know and understand the reasoning behind a particular case studied in class.

2. Skills
By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

- apply the provisions to the Criminal Code to a particular case;
- distinguish between the various interpretations of a particular provision of the Criminal Code.

Main Text/s and any supplementary readings:

- The Criminal Code, Chapter 12 of the Laws of Malta.
- Sir Anthony Mamo, Notes on Criminal law, Faculty of Laws, University of Malta, 1954, Year I.
- Sir Sir Anthony Mamo, Notes on Criminal law, Faculty of Laws, University of Malta, 1954, Year II.
- Sir Anthony Mamo, Notes on Criminal law, Faculty of Laws, University of Malta, 1954, Year V.
- Eddie Attard, Delitti f'Malta. BDL Ltd., San Gwann.
- Personal research of lecturer.
- Ministry of Justice website: www.justiceservices.gov.mt for the text of case law.
- Ministry of Justice, Kollezzjoni tad-Decizjonijiet tal-Qrati Superjuri ta' Malta, Government Printing Press.

 
STUDY-UNIT TYPE Lecture

 
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Assessment Component/s Assessment Due Sept. Asst Session Weighting
Assignment SEM1 Yes 100%

 
LECTURER/S Raymond Mangion

 

 
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