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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. ISSN Print: 0022-0183 • Electronic: 1740-5580 (In Press)
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 (Unpublished)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 (Unpublished)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 (Unpublished)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)	342
2.	Criminal Law Directions (8th ed)	256
3.	Reconceptualising Good Character: Hunter v R; Saruwu v R; Johnstone v R; Walker v R; Lonsdale v R	256
4.	Financial Crime and Corporate Misconduct: A Critical Evaluation of Fraud Legislation	253
5.	Criminal Law: Directions (5th edition)	225
6.	Contemporary Challenges in the Jury System: A Comparative Perspective	195
7.	Who Should Try 'Complex Fraud Trials'?: Reconsidering the Composition of the Tribunal of Fact 30 Years After Roskill	193
8.	Reconsidering the position of jurors with specialist knowledge or expertise	176	3
9.	Educating Jurors: Technology, the Internet and the Jury System	171
10.	Law of Evidence	170
11.	Challenges facing contemporary jury trial	169	23
12.	The problem of jury misbehaviour in an internet age: recent cases and the Law Commission’s consultation	154	178
13.	Sentencing Guidance for Cases of Intentional Strangulation: R v Butler (Geoffrey) [2023] EWCA Crim 800	145	34
14.	Criminal Law: Directions (6th edition)	145
15.	Jury Tampering: Some Legal Consequences	142
16.	Twelve empty seats: reflections on judge only trials after jury tampering	140
17.	Beginning Contract Law	131
18.	Investigating Impropriety in Jury Deliberations: A Recipe for Disaster?	129
19.	Criminal Law: Directions	122
20.	Regulating Online Harassment: Is the Law Fit for the Social Networking Age?	122
21.	Book Review: Electronic Evidence and Electronic Signatures (2021) by Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng [eds]	120	25
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	115	39
23.	Juries under the spotlight	111
24.	Juries and Extraneous Material: A Question of Integrity	110
25.	Criminal Law: Directions (4th edition)	103
26.	Watson Directions: R v AZT [2023] EWCA Crim 1531	100	127
27.	Protecting the secret deliberations of the jury in the interests of efficiency – has the law “lost its moral underpinning”?	97
28.	Criminal Law: Directions (3rd edition)	97
29.	Distinguishing legitimate juror misconduct from frivolous allegations – protecting Lord Judge’s legacy	94
30.	Judicial guidance on the award of compensation for miscarriages of justice: issues of accountability and compatibility with the presumption of innocence	90	48
31.	Criminal Law: Directions (2nd edition)	84
32.	Inchoate Liability and the Serious Crime Act 2007	76
33.	Restricting compensation for miscarriages of justice to the truly innocent	73
34.	A fanciful story of jury irregularity: R v Cashman [2024] EWCA Crim 1543	69	65
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	56	3
36.	Exploring lawyers’ perspectives of jury engagement	29
37.	Jury legitimacy and digital misconduct: A fracture in the democratic ideal?	26
38.	A thematic review of appellate jury irregularity cases between 2023 and 2025: recurring jury problems	20
39.	Clarifying the mens rea for child cruelty and revisiting the objective element of recklessness in R v G

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