Tonight I've taken on the challenge of looking for primary research. To get the top marks, I need to feature quite a lot of research that I haven't just lifted out of books and off of the internet, and I've decided that I really want to contact people that I really care about the opinion of. So, I've been contacting all of the people that might be teaching me in the years to come that specialise in Criminal Law.
My current title, if you didn't know, is 'to what extent should violent crimes be subject to contrasting legal consequences in the English Legal System if it can be proven that there was no intent to cause harm?'
It's slowly becoming more and more specific. It began life just considering intent, and then I was told that there was a word limit. Not impressed. My supervisor had told me that I could write as much as I liked, but when I had to be signed off by my Head of Year (in order to be allowed to finish for Summer), I was told that I was allowed a maximum of 5,200 words. Maybe this might have been good information before having written a 2000 word introduction, but now I'm having to cut down massively.
I'm covering Manslaughter, Self-Defense, Euthanasia, Crimes of Passion, and what I'm calling 'Passionate Crimes.' This includes my favourite piece of case law that I've found so far, which you can find in my earlier post 'What is meant by intent?' I'm probably going to need to cut it down substantially, but I really don't know which bit to cut out. Crimes of Passion is a possibility, but Euthanasia is going to be the most removed section. I've two options really, if it goes massively over the word count:
(1) Not talk about Euthanasia at all
(2) Write about Euthanasia for fun and post it here for you to read...
Depends on how much effort it takes really, and if you let me know whether you're interested in reading my findings (that's a cheeky request for you to comment about your thoughts, by the way).
I've been talking about collecting primary research, and commenting, so I'm going to give you something to comment about. Could you please let me know your thoughts about the following points (could be one, two, or all, it doesn't matter to me) and let me know how you're 'qualified' - this might mean that you're a 'prospective law student from Sheffield' or a 'law lecturer from Dundee' or 'a past magistrate' or even 'just a guy/girl who's interested in reading your blog' I'm genuinely really interested to hear your thoughts, whether by private message or in the comment box below.
Thank you for reading, once again, and hope to hear from you soon!
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