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"The Cunningham, subjective approach to recklessness ... was the accepted definition until a controversial, and, it is now accepted, erroneous turn by the House of Lords in the 1980s ... [T]he House of Lords has recently restored orthodoxy by affirming that the definition of recklessness is as stated in Cunningham ... ." (Ormerod, D Smith and Hogan's Criminal Law, 2005, p104) Explain and evaluate developments in the concept of recklessness in English criminal law in the light of this statement. This essay will deal with how the complicated subject of recklessness has developed throughout the past century. It will consider how and why recklessness was first used, and will then go on to discuss how it went through different eras of subjective and objective recklessness, and will then conclude with the current law, and some of the difficulties that it still faces. The term reckless was first created to deal with the term...

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