Case Talks

Case Talks is an online seminar for the discussion of criminal law cases, bringing together criminal law scholars from the Anglosphere and Germany, organised with Johannes Weigel (Göttingen and Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law).

We discuss one criminal case each session. No registration is required: feel free to join us.

Our sessions and links:

James Manwaring (Cambridge) on Bainbridge [1960] 1 QB 129

• How specifically must an accessory’s mens rea align with the principal’s crime? Which variations are compatible with accessorial liability?
• Thursday 2025-03-06 at 10:00 GMT
• Meeting link.

Hend Hanafy (Cambridge) on a case TBC.

• Thursday 2025-03-20 at 10:00 GMT
• Meeting link.

Johannes Weigel (MPI CSL) on a case TBC on mistake of law.

• Date TBC
• Meeting link.

Svenja Schwartz (MPI CSL) on BGH 22.11.2023 - 2 StR 152/23.

• Is a prior fault doctrine applicable to constellations of omission of medication in the case of persistent psychosis?
• Date TBC
• Meeting link.

Rachel Tolley (Cambridge) on B(MA) [2013] EWCA Crim 3

• (How) Can mental disorders (eg psychosis, autism) affect whether a defendant has a reasonable belief in consent?
• Date TBC
• Meeting link.