Emma Engleby

Assistant Professor

School: Northumbria School of Law

Emma Engleby is a Senior Lecturer in Law. Emma’s research interests are in Criminal Evidence, specifically evidence of character and its admissibility. She is working towards a PhD by Publication focussed upon this area.

Emma teaches across a range of topics, including land law, and the law of evidence.

Campus Address

Room 314, City Campus East
Northumbria University
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 8ST

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Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
Admitting Evidence of Homosexuality in Trials involving Serious Sexual Offences: Highlighting the issue with judicial directions as a panacea to prejudice, Engleby, E. Dec 2025, In: The Journal of Criminal Law
Evidence of Bad Character in cases of historic youth sexual offending – demonstrating a defunct moral compass or distracting the jury and evading the retrospective effect of the presumption of doli incapax?, Engleby, E., Arthur, R. Dec 2018, In: Child and Family Law Quarterly
Homicide in Criminal Law: A Research Companion, Reed, A., Bohlander, M., Wake, N., Engleby, E., Adams, V. 3 Sep 2018
Non-conviction Bad Character Evidence and Directions to the Jury on Use to Show Propensity R v Mitchell [2016] UKSC 55, Stockdale, M., Engleby, E. Apr 2017, In: Journal of Criminal Law
Bad Character Evidence in the Criminal Trial: the English Statutory/Common Law Dichotomy--Anglo-Australian Perspectives, Stockdale, M., Smith, E., San Rogue, M. 1 Dec 2016, In: Journal of International and Comparative Law
Caveat Amator: Transmission of HIV and the parameters of consent and bad character evidence, Reed, A., Smith, E. 28 Oct 2016, Consent: Domestic and Comparative Perspectives, Abingdon, Taylor & Francis
Consent: Domestic and comparative perspectives, Reed, A., Bohlander, M., Wake, N., Smith, E. 28 Oct 2016
Bad character evidence as evidence of identity: R v Richardson [2014] EWCA Crim 1785, Stockdale, M., Smith, E. 1 Feb 2015, In: The Journal of Criminal Law
The admissibility of similar fact evidence, Stockdale, M., Smith, E. 1 Jun 2015, In: Journal of Professional Negligence
General Defences in Criminal Law: Domestic and comparative perspectives, Reed, A., Bohlander, M., Wake, N., Smith, E. Dec 2014