Publisher's Synopsis
This guide for criminal practitioners covers for the first time in one volume all the essential law and practice relating to magistrates' and Crown courts. It concentrates on the practical application of law and procedure, and presents the information in a clearly structured way with a full index. This guide will help advocates and police station legal advisers steer a path through the relevant legislation up to and including the controversial Crime (Sentences) Act 1997. As well as the sentencing powers of the courts, the book covers procedure; ancillary powers; the mentally disordered defendant; early release from and return to prison; and variation of sentence and appeals against sentence.
