Barpracticecourse - Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

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

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...