The Scots Law Student

In between screeds of frantic university work I’ve been working on a post most academic on the various civil and criminal liabilities (there’s a whole lot of them) that potentially arise as a result of Ian Tomlinson’s death minutes after he was body slammed by a police officer. Unfortunately, all this work has turned to so much ash when it was revealed that the initial post mortem was highly suspicious and the pathologist in question has actually been warned about his results and it now appears that he died of internal bleeding and not a heart attack, as was initially decided.

This leads to questions of traumatic and non-traumatic haemorrhage and the causal link between these and his death as well. It still appears to be a very persuasive case of manslaughter (culpable homicide to the non-Sassenach) by applying the egg shell rule. It certainly would be if it was anywhere than at the hands of a strongly empowered riot control officer and that’s where the complexity comes from.

I dropped by my law school this week on the way to the library and picked up a copy of the current student law magazines while I was there.

The Student Law Review, published by Routledge Cavendish is a publication bordering on the “terrifyingly polished” and I find it to be a very interesting read that I try to pick up whenever I can.

I’ve done a quick and rough digest of the contents of this edition, and it’s a very, very long post so I’ve added it after the break. I will be back later to fact check but right now I’m just impressed at myself for getting this typed up. These are in no way the whole articles, or indeed perfect outlines of the articles themselves, I was more interested in putting out what the publication covers instead of violating the copyright on the articles themselves:

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