Judicial Discretion and Criminal Litigation

Zusatztext Dr Pattenden has the knack of finding the most recondite authorities, and of utilizing the most apposite quotations and examples. Such a result reflects application and facility of a quite extraordinary quality. The range of the book, and its depth, are vast ... There can be no doubt that every serious scholar, teacher and practitioner of the law of criminal procedure and evidence must have access to this work. It is in the very rare category of an indispensable source. Klappentext Surveying the discretions exercised by criminal trial courts at both the Crown Court and Magistrates Court level and discretion in the criminal appellate process, this book provides a theoretical framework with which to assess discretions, examines the evidential and procedural discretions whose existence is recorded in cases, statutes, and the reports of law reform bodies, and lists the known principles by which these discretions should be exercised. Zusammenfassung This book is about the discretions exercised by criminal trial courts both at Crown Court and Magistrates' Court level, and about discretion in the criminal appellate process.

Product details

• Authors: Pattdenden, Rosemary Pattenden, Rosemary (Reader in Law Pattenden, Pattenden Rosemary
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.03.1990
• EAN: 9780198255673
• ISBN: 978-0-19-825567-3
• No. of pages: 496
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; England, Wales, LAW / Criminal Law / General, Criminal law & procedure, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Wales / Cymru