Source Currency: Volume 90, Issue 4, 1 August 2026. Citation: JCL 90 (227) Article Reforming the Law Commission: Broader Institutional Representation Vulnerable Victims and Murder Convictions: Partial Defence Reform in England and Wales Gender Disparities in Sentencing: An Exploration of Differences in the Case Characteristics Defining a Criminal Case and Their Effect on Sentence Severity Case Notes Common Law No More? Reinstating the Section 275 Admissibility Test in Scottish Sexual Offence Trials Clarifying the Mens Rea for Child Cruelty and Revisiting the Objective Element of Recklessness in R v G Murder Done for Gain And/Or Justice? Route-to-Verdict Directions and Unsafe Convictions Prepared Statements, Procedural Fairness and Summary Justice. Footnotes, where present, are bi-directional. This journal, along with other available UK law journals, can be searched in the All UK Law Journals file.Online ISSN: 1740-5580 Print ISSN: 0022-0183.