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Archbold Magistrates' Courts Criminal Practice 2025

Author: Barbara Barnes
Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell U.K.
ISBN: 9780414122734

Previous Edition ISBN: 9780414117211
Published In: December 2024
Format: Hardback
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Archbold Magistrates' Court Criminal Practice is a comprehensive, authoritative and practically focused work for practitioners working in magistrates’ courts, youth courts and those working within the wider criminal justice sector.

The work provides detailed coverage of the criminal jurisdiction of magistrates’ courts and youth courts, together with the growing number of civil orders which complement the criminal jurisdiction. Content is easily accessible, allowing the user to quickly identify key issues and find fast answers to difficult questions.

An essential work for all involved in making the system effective: practitioners prosecuting or defending, magistrates, and those responsible for advising them in the administration of the courts. Usable as a stand-alone reference in magistrates’ and youth court proceedings.

Chapter 1: Magistrates' Courts;
Chapter 2: Special Constitution of the Youth Court;
Chapter 3: Investigatory Powers, Orders and Warrants;
Chapter 4: Prosecution of Offences;
Chapter 5: Commencement of Proceedings;
Chapter 6: Legal Aid;
Chapter 7: Allocation and sending for trial;
Chapter 8: Remand on Bail or in Custody;
Chapter 9: Pre-trial procedure;
Chapter 10: Disclosure;
Chapter 11: Summary Trial;
Chapter 12: Witnesses;
Chapter 13: Evidence;
Chapter 14: Bad Character;
Chapter 15: Hearsay;
Chapter 16: Sentencing Code;
Chapter 17: Mental Health;
Chapter 18: Criminal Costs;
Chapter 19: Enforcement of financial orders;
Chapter 20: Civil jurisdiction, procedure and evidence;
Chapter 21: Forfeiture of the proceeds of crime;
Chapter 22: Preventive orders;
Chapter 23: Reconsideration and Appeal;
Chapter 24: General Principles and Defences;
Chapter 25: Offences Against the Person;
Chapter 26: Weapons;
Chapter 27: Sexual Offences;
Chapter 28: Property Offences;
Chapter 29: Public Order Offences;
Chapter 30: Road Traffic Offences;
Chapter 31: Offences Involving Drugs;
Chapter 32: Revenue and Customs Offences;
Chapter 33: Regulatory Offences;
Chapter 34: Corruption, etc; Appendices

Barbara Barnes, General Editor is a District Judge based in Middlesex with 20 years’ experience in the magistrates’ court (most recently as the Justices’ Clerk in Greenwich).

Kevin McCormac OBE is Head of the Sentencing Guidelines Secretariat supporting the Sentencing Guidelines Council and Sentencing Advisory Panel. Formerly a Justices’ Clerk and Justices’ Chief Executive, he was President of the Justices’ Clerks’ Society for 2000/01. He is also an author of Wilkinson’s Road Traffic Offences.

William Carter is a barrister at Gray's Inn, and has worked on Archbold Crown for over 10 years.

Louise Cowen—assistant editor. Lincoln House Chambers

Stephen Shay is a barrister at 1 King's Bench Walk and has worked on Archbold Crown for over 10 years

Stephen Leake, Barrister

District Judge Quentin Purdy, Gray's Inn

Dr Michael Stockdale, Director for the centre for criminal and Civil Procedure and evidence schoold of Law, Northumbria University

Paul Clark District Judge and recorder of the Crown Court

Thomas Ring, Barrister and Clerk to the Justices if the North and East London

District Judge Tanweer Ikram - Inner Temple