This paper arises from a study at the University of Brighton designed to investigate teaching and learning strategies within the LLB Law with Business degree programme. The context of the research was a transition in summative assessment on the second year Criminal Law module from 70% unseen examination and 30% coursework to a 100% seen examination. We wanted to examine blended learning as a platform for formative assessment opportunities as well as a resource to absorb the marking burden which accrued. The seen examination was a vehicle for reducing the summative burden on assessors as well as for addressing concerns relating to academic misconduct. Our research indicated that a move to assessment by 100% seen examination can constitute a successful halfway house between the unseen examination and coursework, and that the blended learning platform can support this innovative assessment strategy
When the offence of statutory corporate manslaughter was introduced, it was widely anticipated that the net of corporate criminal liability would be spread more widely. This paper considers the developments in the field in the eight years since the CMCHA 2007 was enacted in order to assess to what extent these expectations have been met.
This paper examines each of the six concluded cases brought under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 to date and queries: why so few cases have been brought to trial, despite workplace deaths remaining in excess of 145 per year; why all six companies have been small companies, and all received fines below the £ 500,000 threshold recommended by the Sentencing Guidelines Council; and, finally, why individual charges of manslaughter against directors were either not brought or abandoned.
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