The 2025 Seminar
The fifteenth Gerald Gordon seminar on criminal law, supported by the Clark Foundation and the Faculty of Advocates, took place on Thursday 6 June 2024 on the University of Glasgow campus, when the following papers were presented:
- Professor Vanessa Bettinson (Northumbria): Public perceptions on using self-defence in domestic abuse cases
- Professor Lindsay Farmer (Glasgow): "Banking in heaven: credit and trust in the trial of the directors of the City of Glasgow Bank (1879)"
- Dr Jay Gormley (Glasgow): The evolution of sentencing
- Lucy MacKay (Glasgow Caledonian): 'A lifelong project of being harmed': a closer look at age and criminalising misogynistic harassment in Scotland
- Dan McManus (Glasgow): Direct measures and their original justifications
- Dr David Prendergast (Trinity College Dublin): The difference between recklessness and negligence
- Dr Andrew Tickell (Glasgow Caledonian): Redesigning reporting restrictions in the age of social media