Criminal litigation
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Criminal litigation
(Legal practice course guides, 2003-2004)
Oxford University Press, 2003
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A comprehensive and self-contained reference book, designed as a core text on the Legal Practice Course. It deals in a practical way with criminal procedure, providing full consideration of tactical aspects. It incorporates a discussion of relevant skills and rules of professional conduct, including interviewing and obtaining instructions, negotiation, fact management and advocacy. As well as dealing with the rules of criminal procedure, there is an in-depth treatment of all relevant aspects of the law of criminal evidence. This new edition has been fully revised and updated to incorporate all recent legislative, case law and procedural changes, and offers full treatment of the Criminal Justice Bill.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Table of cases
- Table of statutes
- 1: CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
- 1. An outline of criminal procedure: early stages
- 2. Financing a criminal litigation
- 3. Managing a criminal litigation practice
- 4. Police powers and advising the client in the police station
- 5. Commencement of proceedings and mode of trial
- 6. Bail
- 7. Summary trial
- 8. Committal proceedings
- 9. The Crown Court: preparation and trial
- 10. Sentencing and procedures after conviction
- 11. Juveniles in the criminal process: the youth court
- 12. Appeals in criminal cases
- 2: THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
- 13. The European Convention on Human Rights
- 3: CRIMINAL EVIDENCE
- 14. The law of evidence (1)
- 15. The law of evidence (2): competence and compellability: testimony
- 16. The law of evidence (3): the rule against hearsay
- 17. The law of evidence (4): confessions, evidence of reaction, and the right to silence
- 18. The law of evidence (5): improperly obtained evidence in criminal cases
- 19. The law of evidence (6): Corroboration: evidence of identity
- 20. The law of evidence (7): evidence of disposition and character
- 21. The law of evidence (8): evidence of opinion: privilege
- Index
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