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This new edition of the bestselling Blackstone's Magistrates' Court Handbook provides a complete practical guide for the busy magistrates' court advocate. Incorporating essential extracts from the Magistrates' Court Sentencing Guidelines, Andrew Keogh offers all you need in one trustworthy source. Covering all the key aspects of magistrates' court practice, the book focuses on the areas most likely to arise at short notice requiring an instant response from the advocate, as well as on those offences most frequently experienced at court, such as public order, drugs, weapons, driving, criminal damage, and sexual offences. Blackstone's Magistrates' Court Handbook 's easy-to-use pocket-sized format facilitates quick reading and instant decision-making. Tables, flow-charts, and a clear system of icons aid comprehension and speedy navigation. Cross-referencing to Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2012 provides you with easy access to in-depth commentary.

Table of Contents:
PART A: PROCEDURE AND EVIDENCE; A1 Abuse of Process; A2 Adjournments; A3 Admissibility and Exclusion of Evidence; A4 Advance Information; A5 Amending Charge; A6 Appeals and Reopening; A7 Bad Character; A8 Bail; A9 Binding Rulings; A10 Case Management; A11 Clerks Retiring with Justices; A12 Commencing Proceedings; A13 Constitution and Jurisdiction; A14 Committal, Sending, and Transfer for Trial; A15 Costs (Defendants); A16 Court Appointed Legal Representatives; A17 Custody Time Limits; A18 Disclosure; A19 Evidence in Civil Cases; A20 Handcuffs Applications; A21 Hearsay; A22 Human Rights; A23 Identification Evidence; A24 Legal Aid; A25 Mental Disorder; A26 Misbehaviour at Court; A27 Mode of Trial, Allocation, and Plea Before Venue; A28 Presence of Defendant in Court; A29 Remand Periods; A30 Reporting Restrictions; A31 Special Measures and Vulnerable Witnesses; A32 Submission of No Case; A33 Transfer of Criminal Cases; A34 Video Links; A35 Warrants; PART B: YOUTH COURT; B1 General Provisions; B2 Mode of Trial and Allocation; B3 Bail: Young Offenders; B4 Sentencing; PART C: OFFENCES; C1 Animal Offences; C2 Anti-Social Behaviour Order, Breach of; C3 Bail, Failure to Surrender; C4 Communication Network Offences; C5 Criminal Damage; C6 Drugs; C7 Education Act; C8 Fail to Comply with Notification Requirements, Sex Offenders Register; C9 Immigration Offences; C10 Prison Offences; C11 Protective Order, Breach of; C12 Public Order; C13 Road Traffic Offences, Definitions; C14 Road Traffic Offences, Suitable for Fine/Discharge; C15 Sexual Offences; C16 Theft, Fraud, and Evasion; C17 Violence Against the Person; PART D: SENTENCING; D1 Age of Offender; D2 Alteration of Sentence; D3 Anti-Social Behaviour Orders; D4 Banning Orders; D5 Bind Over; D6 Breach of Community Order; D7 Breach of Supervision Order; D8 Committal for Sentence; D9 Committal for Sentence: Dangerous Young Offender; D10 Community Orders and Sentences: General; D11 Community Punishment and Rehabilitation Orders; D12 Community Punishment Order; D13 Community Rehabilitation Order; D14 Compensation Order; D15 Conditional and Absolute Discharge; D16 Confiscation, Proceeds of Crime Act 2002; D17 Custodial Sentences; D18 Dangerous Offenders; D19 Deferment of Sentence; D20 Deportation, Automatic; D21 Deprivation Order; D22 Detention and Training Order; D23 Detention in Young Offender Institution; D24 Detention under Section 91 PCC(S)A 2000; D25 Discounts for Early Plea; D26 Disqualification from Driving; D27 Disqualification of Company Directors; D28 Drinking Banning Order; D29 Exclusion from Licensed Premises; D30 Exclusion Order; D31 Financial Circumstances Order; D32 Financial Reporting Order; D33 Fines; D34 Forfeiture Order; D35 Guardianship and Hospital Orders; D36 Newton Hearings; D37 Offences Taken into Consideration; D38 Parenting Order; D39 Parents and Guardians, Liability and Responsibility; D40 Penalty Points for Driving Offences; D41 Prescribed Minimum Sentences; D42 Pre-Sentence Drug Testing; D43 Pre-Sentence Reports; D44 Previous Convictions; D45 Prosecution Costs; D46 Racially and Religiously Aggravated Crimes; D47 Referral Orders; D48 Remand to Hospital for Reports; D49 Remitting a Juvenile; D50 Reparation Order; D51 Restitution Order; D52 Restraining Order; D53 Return to Custody; D54 Sentencing Guidelines Issued by Sentencing Guidelines Council; D55 Sexual Offences Notification Requirements; D56 Sexual Offences Prevention Order; D57 Sexual Orientation or Disability; D58 Supervision Order; D59 Surcharge Order; D60 Suspended Sentences; D61 Time on Remand; D62 Youth Rehabilitation Order: Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008; APPENDICES; APPENDIX 1: APPLICATION FOR COSTS AGAINST CONVICTED DEFENDANTS; APPENDIX 2: BAR COUNCIL GUIDANCE: COURT APPOINTED LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES; APPENDIX 3: PENALTY NOTICES FOR DISORDER; APPENDIX 4: CRIMINAL PROCEDURE RULES 2010: RULE 1 (THE OVERRIDING OBJECTIVE) AND RULE 3 (CASE MANAGEMENT); APPENDIX 5: RELEVANT OFFENCES FOR THE PURPOSES OF SPECIAL MEASURES DIRECTION; APPENDIX 6: FRAUD GUIDELINE

About the Author :
Andrew Keogh is a criminal solicitor running his own firm specializing in criminal and regulatory work. He is the founder and editor of CrimeLine - a free weekly criminal law updater with over 10,000 subscribers. He has authored a number of books and is a contributor toOUP's Blackstone's Criminal Practice, and Criminal Costs: A Practical Guide.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199665624
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 181 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 308 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199665621
  • Publisher Date: 26 Apr 2012
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Width: 103 mm


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