Criminallitigation - 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

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. proceeding in the absence of the defendant 2. unrepresented defendants 3. abuse of process in the Crown Court 4. procedural steps in a jury trial, including the different ways in which evidence may be presented or proved, dealing with points of law during the trial and submission of no case to answer 5. speeches and summing up 6. verdicts, including majority verdicts and conviction of a lesser offence

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...

1. the general prohibition on the use of opinion evidence in criminal cases and the exceptions to this rule 2. the use of expert opinion evidence at trial

Exam revision notes based on ULaw Workshop Reading List and Workshops. POLICE POWERS AND DUTIES, ADVISING A SUSPECT AT THE POLICE STATION AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS INITIAL STEPS IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS CASE ANALYSIS PREPARING FOR TRIAL

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Introduction to criminal litigation 2022

Distinction level notes for the LPC at University of Law. Laid out in clear table format and covering all course content in workshop order for the 2018/19 course, these are the most up to date and comprehensive LPC notes currently available, and include step-by-step model answers and specimen papers. The notes come as a full notebook for each module.