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Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2026) The trial must go on: Reviewing recent appellate decisions to proceed with judge alone trials in jury tampering cases. Criminal Law Review. ISSN 0011-135X (In Press)
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2026) Clarifying the mens rea for child cruelty and revisiting the objective element of recklessness in R v G. Journal of Criminal Law, Online (First). pp. 1-5. ISSN Print: 0022-0183 • Electronic: 1740-5580
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2026) Exploring lawyers’ perspectives of jury engagement. In: Criminal Justice Centre PhD Conference 2026, 8 May 2026, Warwick Law School. (Unpublished)
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2026) A thematic review of appellate jury irregularity cases between 2023 and 2025: recurring jury problems. In: Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2026, Monday 30 March 2026 and Wednesday 1 April 2026, University of Sussex campus in Falmer, Brighton. (Unpublished)
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2026) Jury legitimacy and digital misconduct: A fracture in the democratic ideal? In: ICON.S Annual Conference 2026, 29 June - 1 July 2026, University College Dublin (UCD) Sutherland School of Law, Ireland. (Unpublished)
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2026) Jurors and the use of extraneous material during deliberations: comparing the issues raised by two recent cases from England and Wales and New South Wales. Criminal Law Review, 2026 (1). pp. 4-18. ISSN 0011-135X
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2025) A fanciful story of jury irregularity: R v Cashman [2024] EWCA Crim 1543. The Journal of Criminal Law, Case (Note). pp. 1-4. ISSN Print: 0022-0183 Electronic: 1740-5580
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2025) A sad case of manslaughter - gross negligence manslaughter where the deceased is engaged in criminal activity and the parties are acting in concert R v Ibrahima Bah [2024] EWCA Crim 1499. Journal of Criminal Law, Online (First). pp. 1-6. ISSN Print: 0022-0183 • Electronic: 1740-5580
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2025) Criminal Law Directions (8th ed). Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780198931843
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2025) Watson Directions: R v AZT [2023] EWCA Crim 1531. Journal of Criminal Law, Online (First). pp. 1-4. ISSN Print: 0022-0183 • Electronic: 1740-5580
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2024) Sentencing Guidance for Cases of Intentional Strangulation: R v Butler (Geoffrey) [2023] EWCA Crim 800. Journal of Criminal Law. pp. 1-4. ISSN Print: 0022-0183 • Electronic: 1740-5580
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2024) Contemporary Challenges in the Jury System: A Comparative Perspective. Routledge Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice and Procedure . Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 9781032506531
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2024) Reconsidering the position of jurors with specialist knowledge or expertise. In: Contemporary Challenges in the Jury System: A Comparative Perspective. Routledge Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice and Procedure . Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 44-66. ISBN 9781032506531
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2024) Challenges facing contemporary jury trial. In: Contemporary Challenges in the Jury System: A Comparative Perspective. Routledge Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice and Procedure . Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 1-6. ISBN 9781032506531
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2024) Juries under the spotlight. University of Worcester Academic Blog, Worcester.
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2022) Book Review: Electronic Evidence and Electronic Signatures (2021) by Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng [eds]. SAS Publishers.
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2022) Criminal Law: Directions (7th edition). Directions (4). Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780192855374
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2021) Jury Tampering: Some Legal Consequences. University of Worcester Academic Blog, Worcester.
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2020) Criminal Law: Directions (6th edition). Directions (2). Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 978-0198848783
Monaghan, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9331-804X and Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2018) Financial Crime and Corporate Misconduct: A Critical Evaluation of Fraud Legislation. The Law of Financial Crime . Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 1-214. ISBN 1138557099 or 9781138557093 or 9780367498474
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2018) Who Should Try 'Complex Fraud Trials'?: Reconsidering the Composition of the Tribunal of Fact 30 Years After Roskill. In: Financial Crime and Corporate Misconduct: A Critical Evaluation of Fraud Legislation. The Law of Financial Crime . Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 176-191. ISBN 1138557099, 9781138557093
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2018) Criminal Law: Directions (5th edition). Directions . Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780198811824 or 9780192550675
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2016) Criminal Law: Directions (4th edition). Directions . Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 978-0198753278
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2015) Reconceptualising Good Character: Hunter v R; Saruwu v R; Johnstone v R; Walker v R; Lonsdale v R. The International Journal of Evidence & Proof, 19 (3). pp. 190-195. ISSN Print: 1365-7127 Online: 1740-5572
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2015) Law of Evidence. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781107604612
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2014) Criminal Law: Directions (3rd edition). Directions (2). Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 978-0198702283
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2014) Distinguishing legitimate juror misconduct from frivolous allegations – protecting Lord Judge’s legacy. In: Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2014, 9th-11th April, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. (Unpublished)
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2013) Judicial guidance on the award of compensation for miscarriages of justice: issues of accountability and compatibility with the presumption of innocence. Coventry Law Journal, 18 (2). pp. 1-10. ISSN 1758-2512
Monaghan, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9331-804X and Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2013) Beginning Contract Law. Beginning the Law . Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 9780415523769 or 9780415523776 or 9780203569214
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2013) The problem of jury misbehaviour in an internet age: recent cases and the Law Commission’s consultation. Coventry Law Journal, 18 (1). pp. 69-80. ISSN 1758-2512
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2012) Criminal Law: Directions (2nd edition). Directions . Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 978-0199646395
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2012) Protecting the secret deliberations of the jury in the interests of efficiency – has the law “lost its moral underpinning”? In: Dissenting Judgments in the Law. Wildy, Simmonds & Hill, London, pp. 343-362. ISBN Hardback: 978-0854900848 • Paperback: 9780854902545
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 and Malcolm, T. (2012) Restricting compensation for miscarriages of justice to the truly innocent. In: Dissenting Judgments in the Law. Wildy, Simmonds & Hill, London, pp. 405-418. ISBN Hardback: 978-0854900848 • Paperback: 9780854902545
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2010) Criminal Law: Directions. Directions . Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 978-0199564712
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2010) Educating Jurors: Technology, the Internet and the Jury System. Information and Communications Technology Law, 19 (3). pp. 255-266. ISSN Print: 1360-0834 Electronic: 1469-8404
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 and Monaghan, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9331-804X (2010) Twelve empty seats: reflections on judge only trials after jury tampering. Criminal Bar Quarterly, Mar'10 (1). pp. 10-11.
Geach, N. and Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2009) Regulating Online Harassment: Is the Law Fit for the Social Networking Age? The Journal of Criminal Law, 73 (3). pp. 241-257. ISSN Print: 0022-0183 Electronic: 1740-5580
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 and Johnson, M. (2008) Inchoate Liability and the Serious Crime Act 2007. In: Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference 2008, 15/09/08 → 18/09/08, London School of Economics, London. (Unpublished)
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2007) Juries and Extraneous Material: A Question of Integrity. The Journal of Criminal Law, 71 (6). pp. 520-533. ISSN Print: 0022-0183 Electronic: 1740-5580
Monaghan, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-6915 (2004) Investigating Impropriety in Jury Deliberations: A Recipe for Disaster? The Journal of Criminal Law, 68 (5). pp. 411-422. ISSN Print: 0022-0183 Electronic: 1740-5580

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1.	Criminal Law: Directions (7th edition)	358
2.	Reconceptualising Good Character: Hunter v R; Saruwu v R; Johnstone v R; Walker v R; Lonsdale v R	273
3.	Criminal Law Directions (8th ed)	269
4.	Financial Crime and Corporate Misconduct: A Critical Evaluation of Fraud Legislation	264
5.	Criminal Law: Directions (5th edition)	234
6.	Contemporary Challenges in the Jury System: A Comparative Perspective	209
7.	Who Should Try 'Complex Fraud Trials'?: Reconsidering the Composition of the Tribunal of Fact 30 Years After Roskill	207
8.	Reconsidering the position of jurors with specialist knowledge or expertise	199	4
9.	Law of Evidence	192
10.	Challenges facing contemporary jury trial	182	35
11.	Educating Jurors: Technology, the Internet and the Jury System	182
12.	Criminal Law: Directions (6th edition)	161
13.	The problem of jury misbehaviour in an internet age: recent cases and the Law Commission’s consultation	160	184
14.	Beginning Contract Law	157
15.	Sentencing Guidance for Cases of Intentional Strangulation: R v Butler (Geoffrey) [2023] EWCA Crim 800	156	42
16.	Twelve empty seats: reflections on judge only trials after jury tampering	155
17.	Jury Tampering: Some Legal Consequences	155
18.	Regulating Online Harassment: Is the Law Fit for the Social Networking Age?	147
19.	Investigating Impropriety in Jury Deliberations: A Recipe for Disaster?	146
20.	Juries and Extraneous Material: A Question of Integrity	143
21.	Book Review: Electronic Evidence and Electronic Signatures (2021) by Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng [eds]	137	29
22.	A sad case of manslaughter - gross negligence manslaughter where the deceased is engaged in criminal activity and the parties are acting in concert R v Ibrahima Bah [2024] EWCA Crim 1499	130	49
23.	Juries under the spotlight	128
24.	Criminal Law: Directions	126
25.	Criminal Law: Directions (4th edition)	124
26.	Watson Directions: R v AZT [2023] EWCA Crim 1531	113	136
27.	Protecting the secret deliberations of the jury in the interests of efficiency – has the law “lost its moral underpinning”?	112
28.	Distinguishing legitimate juror misconduct from frivolous allegations – protecting Lord Judge’s legacy	109
29.	Criminal Law: Directions (2nd edition)	104
30.	Criminal Law: Directions (3rd edition)	104
31.	Judicial guidance on the award of compensation for miscarriages of justice: issues of accountability and compatibility with the presumption of innocence	98	56
32.	Restricting compensation for miscarriages of justice to the truly innocent	84
33.	Inchoate Liability and the Serious Crime Act 2007	81
34.	A fanciful story of jury irregularity: R v Cashman [2024] EWCA Crim 1543	76	85
35.	Jurors and the use of extraneous material during deliberations: comparing the issues raised by two recent cases from England and Wales and New South Wales	66	5
36.	Exploring lawyers’ perspectives of jury engagement	41
37.	A thematic review of appellate jury irregularity cases between 2023 and 2025: recurring jury problems	40
38.	Jury legitimacy and digital misconduct: A fracture in the democratic ideal?	33
39.	Clarifying the mens rea for child cruelty and revisiting the objective element of recklessness in R v G	14	2
40.	The trial must go on: Reviewing recent appellate decisions to proceed with judge alone trials in jury tampering cases	7

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