To date, no scholarly article has analyzed the theoretical basis of mental health courts, which currently exist in forty-three states. This Article examines the two utilitarian justifications proposed by mental health court advocates—therapeutic jurisprudence and therapeutic rehabilitation—and finds both insufficient. Therapeutic jurisprudence is inadequate to justify mental health courts becau...

This article presents the results of a study of 894 criminal defendants referred by Virginia courts for evaluation of competency to stand trial or criminal responsibility. All evaluations were conducted on an outpatient basis by mental health professionals who had received specialized training in forensic evaluation. Findings as to the referral questions posed, the criminal offenses charged, an...

Abstract This article analyses the procedural right to a remedy under human rights law when applied armed groups controlling territory and exercising governance. Using Al Hassan case before International Criminal Court as reference point drawing on literature rebel governance from other disciplines, conducts critical review of application groups. Finding that can be useful realistic, articles e...

The much-publicised recent decision of the Court of Appeal in the case of the ischiopagus conjoined twins, Mary and Jodie, should be viewed with considerable alarm by criminal lawyers. We find the mood of the Court reminiscent of that in Airedale NHS Trust v. Bland1. There, too, the criminal law appeared to present an inconvenient obstacle to the result desired by all the courts involved. In th...