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This 44-page guide is a concise, structured, and visually engaging revision resource for Criminal Law and Practice, covering all the essentials:
- Advising clients at the police station: rights to legal advice, having someone informed of arrest, detention reviews and limits under PACE 1984, Code C.
- Identification procedures: types, timing, and procedures under PACE 1984, Code D.
- Police interviews: advising clients on answering questions, right to silence, adverse inferences, and representation of vulnerable clients.
- Criminal litigation procedures: bail applications, first hearings at magistrates’ court, Plea before Venue, allocation of business between magistrates’ court and Crown Court.
- Case management and pre-trial hearings: Magistrates’ court directions, Plea and Trial Preparation Hearing, disclosure of prosecution, defence, and unused material.
- Evidence: burden and standard of proof, visual identification, inferences from silence, hearsay, confession, and bad character evidence; rules for admitting and excluding evidence.
- Trial procedure: magistrates’ court and Crown Court trials, stages of trial, courtroom etiquette, leading/non-leading questions, competence and compellability, special measures, solicitor’s duty to the court.
- Sentencing: sentencing guidelines, seriousness, aggravating/mitigating factors, types of sentences, concurrent/consecutive sentences, mitigation, Newton hearings.
- Appeals procedure: appeals from magistrates’ and Crown Court, High Court appeals by case stated, Court of Appeal powers and procedures.
- Youth court procedure: jurisdiction, allocation, sentencing, referral orders, detention/training orders, youth rehabilitation orders.