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Murder, Medicine and Motherhood, by Emma Cunliffe. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2011 xiii + 207 + (references + appendix + index) 24pp (£35hardback). ISBN: 978-1-84946-157-3.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Catherine O'Sullivan
Catherine O'Sullivan*
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University College Cork, Faculty of Law
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Legal Studies , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , March 2012 , pp. 154 - 160
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References

1. Murder, p 54.

2. [2003] EWCA Crim 1020.

3. [2004] EWCA Crim 1.

4. [2005] EWCA Crim 952.

5. Murder, p 72.

6. Ibid, p 10.

7. [1999] NSWSC 1175.

8. [2007] VSC 398.

9. Murder, p 4, footnote omitted.

10. Cunliffe uses the legal understanding of wrongful conviction which is wider than factual innocence. See ibid, p 13, n 53.

11. This testimony was criticised by the Court of Appeal. Clark, above n 2, at [177]–[178].

12. Murder, p 27.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid, p 75.

15. Ibid, pp 62–67 and 78.

16. Ibid, pp 23 and 64.

17. Ibid, p 199, quoting Jasanoff, S Science at the Bar: Law, Science and Technology in America (Cambridge: MA: Harvard University Press, 1994) p 207 Google Scholar.

18. Murder, p 64.

19. Ibid, p 26.

20. Ibid, p 194, n 2.

21. Ibid, p 93.

22. This study found that the decision whether to classify a death as natural or unnatural relied ‘in significant part on a team's assessment of the caregiving capabilities of an infant's primary caregiver, usually the mother.’ Ibid, p 64, discussing Fleming, P et al Sudden Unexpected Deaths in Infancy: The CESDI SUDI Studies, 1993–1996 (London: Stationery Office, 2000)Google Scholar.

23. Murder, p 41.

24. Ibid, p 68, n 174.

25. Ibid, pp 201–202.

26. Ibid, p 37.

27. Ibid, p 98, quoting Chunn, De and Lacombe, D ‘Introduction’ in Chunn, DE and Lacombe, D (eds) Law as a Gendering Practice (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2000) p 10 Google Scholar.

28. Murder, pp 98–99, footnote omitted.

29. There were eight factual similarities listed and two medical similarities. Ibid, pp 108 and 115.

30. Ibid, p 109, quoting Clark, above n 2, at [15].

31. Murder, p 140.

32. Ibid, pp 145–146.

33. Ibid, pp 184–185.

34. Ibid, p 147.

35. Ibid, p 154.

36. Ibid, p 150, references omitted.

37. Ibid, p 155.

38. Above n 11.

39. Murder, p 161.

40. Ibid, p 158.

41. Ibid, pp 159–160.

42. F Gibb ‘Grief-stricken Sally Clark “drank herself to death” ’Times 8 November 2007.

43. Murder, p 132, n 144.