Emma Engleby

Assistant Professor

Department: Northumbria Law School

Emma Engleby is a Senior Lecturer in Law. Emma’s research interests are in Criminal Evidence, specifically evidence of character and its admissibility. She is working towards a PhD by Publication focussed upon this area.

Emma teaches across a range of topics, including land law, and the law of evidence.

Campus Address

Room 314, City Campus East
51��
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 8ST

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Key Publications

Evidence of Bad Character in cases of historic youth sexual offending – demonstrating a defunct moral compass or distracting the jury and evading the retrospective effect of the presumption of doli incapax?, Engleby, E., Arthur, R. Dec 2018, In: Child and Family Law Quarterly
Homicide in Criminal Law: A Research Companion, Reed, A., Bohlander, M., Wake, N., Engleby, E., Adams, V. 3 Sep 2018
Non-conviction Bad Character Evidence and Directions to the Jury on Use to Show Propensity R v Mitchell [2016] UKSC 55, Stockdale, M., Engleby, E. Apr 2017, In: Journal of Criminal Law
Bad Character Evidence in the Criminal Trial: the English Statutory/Common Law Dichotomy--Anglo-Australian Perspectives, Stockdale, M., Smith, E., San Rogue, M. 1 Dec 2016, In: Journal of International and Comparative Law
Caveat Amator: Transmission of HIV and the parameters of consent and bad character evidence, Reed, A., Smith, E. 28 Oct 2016, Consent: Domestic and Comparative Perspectives, Abingdon, Taylor & Francis
Consent: Domestic and comparative perspectives, Reed, A., Bohlander, M., Wake, N., Smith, E. 28 Oct 2016
Bad character evidence as evidence of identity: R v Richardson [2014] EWCA Crim 1785, Stockdale, M., Smith, E. 1 Feb 2015, In: The Journal of Criminal Law
The admissibility of similar fact evidence, Stockdale, M., Smith, E. 1 Jun 2015, In: Journal of Professional Negligence
General Defences in Criminal Law: Domestic and comparative perspectives, Reed, A., Bohlander, M., Wake, N., Smith, E. Dec 2014
Locating complicity: choice, character, participation, dangerousness and the liberal subjectivist, Livings, B., Smith, E. Jun 2013, Participation in crime: domestic, comparative and international perspectives, Farnham, Ashgate

Qualifications

Law LLM September 01 2010
Law Related Studies Diploma September 01 2007
Law LLB September 01 2007
Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2015

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