Lisa Mountford (Solicitor and Keele University Senior Lecturer)

Criminal Litigation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Criminal Litigation offers a comprehensive and practical guide to the subject. Using realistic case studies and online resources, students are encouraged to focus on putting their understanding into a practical context. Diagrams, self-test questions, and summaries of key points ensure the text is easy to use.

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Produktdetails

• Legal Practice Course Manuals
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 18 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 680
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 290mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1438g
• ISBN-13: 9780192858818
• ISBN-10: 0192858815
• Artikelnr.: 64136527

Autorenporträt

Lisa Mountford is a non-practising solicitor and law lecturer with extensive teaching and examining experience on criminal law programmes and on LPC criminal litigation and evidence courses.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. Introduction to Criminal Litigation
1: Introduction
2: An introduction to the law of criminal evidence and advocacy
Part 2. Investigation and the Decision to Charge
3: The powers to stop, search, and arrest
4: Detention and interrogation
5: The right to silence at the police station
6: Challenging unlawfully and unfairly obtained evidence
7: Obtaining identification evidence
8: The decision to prosecute and the prosecution's duties of disclosure of evidence
Part 3. From Charge to Trial
9: Funding of criminal defence services and first appearance process
10: The law and practice relating to court bail
11: Prosecuting an either-way offence
12: Prosecuting summary offences
13: Crown Court proceedings pre-trial
14: Trial before the Crown Court
Part 4. Proving the Case: The Rules of Criminal Evidence
15: The burden of proof
16: Witness evidence
17: Corroboration, the 'Turnbull guidelines' and opinion evidence
18: Hearsay evidence
19: Character evidence and the accused as a witness at trial
20: Private privilege
Part 5. Post Conviction: Sentencing and Appeals
21: Sentencing procedure and the general principles of sentencing
22: Specific types of sentence and the plea in mitigation
23: Appeals
Part 6. Youth Justice
24: Youth justice - introduction
25: Prosecuting young offenders
26: Sentencing young offenders
Appendix 1
Additional chapters (online only)