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The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (5th edition), Mainwork with 1st Supplement

The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 5th ed with 1st Supplement

The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (5th edition), Mainwork with 1st Supplement

Author: Michael Zander
Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell U.K.
ISBN: 9780421966000
Published In: March 2006
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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The fifth edition of this best-selling book provides full coverage of the law surrounding the Police and Criminal. Evidence Act 1984 as amended, and brings the work up-to-date with the latest PAGE Codes of Practice, in effect from 1 August 2004.. Everything needed to understand PACE collected together in one volume.

The 1st Supplement was published in March 2006
Fully up-to-date - contains in full the latest Codes.
Clarifies PACE in practice via in-depth discussion of case law, including many new judicial decisions.
Deals with the new system for charging introduced by the Criminal Justice Act 2003 - including the DPP's Guidance on it.
Considers the 2004 Home Office Consultation Paper Policing: Modernising Police Powers to Meet Community Needs, which canvassed various amendments to PACE.
Covers topics derived from other legislation that integrally relate to PACE, such as the right to silence, human rights issues and terrorism investigations.* Includes a Q & A section in each chapter giving quick answers to common and more obscure questions.
Sets out relevant sections of legislative materials in full.
Written by the leading authority on PACE

Contents:: COMMENTARY ON THE ACT; Part I - Stop and Search (ss.1 - 7); Questions and Answers; Part II - Entry, Search and Seizure (ss.8 - 23); Questions and Answers; Part III - Arrest (ss.24 - 33); Questions and Answers; Part IV - Detention (ss.34 - 52); Questions and Answers; Part V - Questioning and Treatment of Persons by Police (ss.53 - 65); Questions and Answers; Part VI - Codes of Practice (ss.66 - 67); Questions and Answers; Part VII - Documentary Evidence (ss.68 - 72); Part VIII - Evidence in Criminal Proceedings General (ss.73-82); Questions and Answers; Part IX - Police Complaints and Discipline (ss.83 - 105); Part X - Police General (ss.106 - 112); Part XI - Miscellaneous and Supplementary (ss.113 - 122); POLICE POWERS FOR CIVILIANS - THE POLICE REFORM ACT 2003; Commentary; Text of the statutory provisions; THE RIGHT TO SILENCE; Commentary; Right to Silence Provisions in the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994; THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998 and the EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS; THE POLICE AND CRIMINAL EVIDENCE ACT 1984; Text of the Act and Schedules 1; CODES OF PRACTICE; A. The Exercise by Police Officers of Powers of Stop and Search; B. The Searching of Premises and the Seizure of Property; C. The Detention, Treatment and Questioning of Persons by the Police; D. The Identification of Persons by Police Officers; E. Tape Recording Interviews with Suspects; F. Visual Recording with Sound of Interviews with Suspects