Bar Practice Course

Covers almost all the syllabus for Civil Litigation 2024. Summary of all that is covered.

Full revision notes from 2023/2024 BSB syllabus (Criminal Litigation). 150+ Pages

Civil appeals in England and Wales (excluding appeals to the Supreme Court) 1. judgment and orders, including Tomlin orders 2. enforcing money judgments 3. recording and enforcement of settlements following ADR

Ethics Revision Notes for Bar Practice Course

1. evidence of fact in civil proceedings 2. witness statements and witness summonses 3. notices to admit facts and notices to prove documents

Criminal Litigation - Preliminaries to Prosecution The Codes of Practice issued under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) and their importance to criminal investigations 2. The provisions of Code C.10 (cautions and special warnings) and Code C.11 (interviews) 3. The main powers of arrest and the detention and treatment of suspects 4. The role of the Crown Prosecution Service and other prosecutors 5. The different methods of commencing criminal proceedings and time limits

1. the indictment, including time limits and the structure and format of an indictment 2. rules governing joinder of counts in an indictment and the consequences of misjoinder 3. rules relating to specimen counts 4. joinder of accused in an indictment 5. applications to sever the indictment 6. applications to amend indictments 7. voluntary bills of indictment

1. the definition of confessions under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 2. admissibility and exclusion of confessions 3. determining the admissibility of confessions and the voir dire procedure 4. the admissibility of evidence obtained as a result of inadmissible confessions 5. the exclusion of other prosecution evidence at common law and under section 78 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 6. common categories of evidence that may be the subject of applications to exclud...

1. evidential significance of the defendant’s lies and directions that should be given to the jury 2. inferences from the defendant’s failure to mention facts when questioned 3. inferences from the defendant’s failure to account for objects, substances and marks and from the defendant’s failure to account for their presence at the scene of a crime 4. inferences from the defendant’s failure to testify in their own defence during the trial, including the advice that should be given ...

Criminal Litigation - Disclosure of unused material and defence statements 1. investigator’s duty to retain unused material (detailed knowledge not required), prosecutor’s duty of disclosure and the test for determining whether unused material should be disclosed by the prosecution 2. time limits for prosecution disclosure, applications to compel prosecution to disclose and the continuing duty to review 3. defence duties of disclosure, defence statements and consequences of defence disclo...