Criminal law study guide module 1

European Law and the European Convention on Human Rights are other key sources of criminal law.
It is important in particular to understand the Convention and its impact.
Rarely a month goes past without some aspect of domestic law being challenged for being inconsistent with the Convention.

The criminal law’s purposes are discharged by law enforcement and the machinery of criminal justice generally.
Law enforcement includes ,preventing crime, typically by policing and also by bringing offenders to justice.
The procedures vary according to the nature of the offence committed.