Steve Forster LLB (Hons) Cert Ed

Contact Details -

Address: John Foster Building, 98 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5UZ
Telephone: +44 (0) 151 231 3615
Email: S.A.Forster@ljmu.ac.uk

Steve is involved in teaching criminal law on both the LLB and the GDL, Steve also teaches on the evidence, property offences and sexual crimes modules on the LLB. Steve is also involved in the criminal law and criminal justice degree.

Administrative -

Steve is the Cohort Leader for the First Year LLB.

Research Interests -

Steve takes an active interest in any developments that arise in substantive criminal law, criminal evidence and criminal practice. Steve is currently updating his textbook in readiness for the 2nd edition.     

Publications -

Books

Steve is the author of a textbook entitled “Criminal Law and Practice” 1st Edition (ISBN: 978-1-84703-449-6) published by Sweet and Maxwell in July 2008. The textbook contains 28 chapters over 700 pages and is split into three parts.

Part 1 covers substantive criminal law, including essential elements to criminal liability, fatal and non fatal offences against the person, theft and related offences, participatory and inchoate liability and general defences.

Part 2 covers criminal practice, including police powers and procedure, commencement of proceedings, magistrates and youth court procedure, bail, disclosure of evidence and crown court procedure, sentencing and appeal procedure.

Part 3 covers criminal evidence, which focuses on relevance, admissibility and weight of evidence, witness evidence, identification and expert evidence, character evidence, hearsay evidence, corroboration and circumstantial evidence, confessional evidence and the discretionary powers of the judge. 

The purpose of the book is to provide a clear and detailed analysis of criminal law, criminal practice and evidence in one readily accessible source without the loss of the appropriate depth and analysis needed to develop a sufficient awareness in order to bring success.

Journal Articles -

The following is a list of articles that Steve has had published in the Justice of the Peace Law Journal now entitled the Criminal Law and Justice Weekly produced by Lexis Nexis

'Joint Enterprise Liability: Is there a Degree of Unforeseen Logic?' (2010) 174 CL&JW 

'Alternative Verdicts: A Question of Justice and Proportionality' (2010) 174 CL&JW 69

'The fundamentally Different Rule in Joint Enterprise Liability' (2009) 173 CL&JW 560

'Retention of DNA/Fingerprint Samples: A disproportionate response to the unconvicted population' (2009) 173 CL&JW 121

'Criminal Liability for Offensive Weapons: Is the Law Effective?' (2008) 172 JPN 606

'Alternative Verdicts: A Question of Justice and Fairness' (2006) 170 JPN 871

'Revealing Background Evidence to the Jury: A Question of a Need to Know' (2006) 170 JPN 484

'Intoxication, Mistaken Belief and its effect on the element of Mens Rea' (2006) 170 JPN 324

'Retention of DNA/Fingerprint Samples: A Justified and Lawful Policy' (2004) 167 JPN 968

'The Offence of Being Drunk in an Aircraft and the Aviation (Offences) Act 2003' (2003)166 JPN 651

'Retention of DNA/Fingerprint Samples: A Fair and Proportionate Response' (2002) 166 JPN 968

'Prejudicial Reporting and its Effects on the Fairness of a Criminal Trial: Should Justice be a Cloistered virtue' (2002) 166 JPN 360

'The Concept of Legitimate Expectation in the Sentencing Process: A Question of Fairness' (2002) 166 JPN 100

'Avoiding the Potential Pitfalls: Judicial guidance on the Imposition of Detention and Training Orders' (2001) 165 JPN 736

'The Taking and Subsequent Retention of DNA/Fingerprint Samples: Striking a Difficult Balance' (2001) 165 JPN 556

'Statutory Construction of Offences that Involve Indecent Photographs of Children' (2001) 165 JPN 376

'Criminal Liability of Those Who Cause Trouble in the Air and Related issues' (2000) 164 JPN 832.

The issue of Mens Rea and the Offence of Aggravated Vehicle Taking' (1997)161 JPN 834.

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