Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2024 (Main Work with All Supplements)


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Led by Professor David Ormerod CBE, KC (Hon) and David Perry KC, Blackstone's Criminal Practice brings together an expert team of authors with a commitment to deliver a work which offers detailed and insightful coverage for criminal practice and authoritative statements of the law in a practical and accessible format. With an accompanying supplement containing essential primary materials and commentary updates throughout the year, and access to regular web updates and the additional analysis provided by Blackstone's Briefings, you can rely on Blackstone's Criminal Practice to be your constant companion. The 2024 edition has been meticulously revised to provide extensive coverage of all new legislation, case law, Sentencing Guidelines, and the Criminal Procedure Rules 2020, and the Criminal Practice Directions 2023. Supplement 1 is included with this pack. Register to receive two further cumulative supplements, published in early and mid-2024 which provide updated commentary and analysis as well as the latest updates to the Criminal Procedure Rules and Practice Directions, and the main PACE codes and other guidelines.




Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2020


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Your single point of reference on criminal law and procedure, Blackstone's Criminal Practice is the only text to offer all the material you need to practise with ease in the Crown and magistrates' courts. Regularly cited, its incomparable quality and accessibility make it an essential reference for all criminal law specialists.










Blackstone's Magistrates' Court Handbook 2024


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The new edition of the bestselling Blackstone's Magistrates' Court Handbook provides a complete, trustworthy practical guide for the busy practitioner. Covering all the key aspects of magistrates' court practice, the book focuses on the areas most likely to arise at short notice requiring an instant response from the advocate, as well as on those offences most frequently experienced at court, such as assault, public order, dishonesty, drugs, weapons, driving, criminal damage, and sexual offences. Blackstone's Magistrates' Court Handbook's easy-to-use pocket-sized format facilitates quick reading and instant decision-making. Tables, flow-charts, and a clear system of icons aid comprehension and speedy navigation. Users are signposted to the relevant sentencing guidelines for each offence, allowing for prompt access to the up-to-date guideline online. Cross-referencing to Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2024 provides you with easy access to in-depth commentary.




Comprehensive Criminal Procedure, Fifth Edition


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The 2024 Supplement accompanies the Fifth Edition of the authors’ Comprehensive Criminal Procedure casebook, and includes all relevant rules and statutes, as well as all significant United States Supreme Court cases from October Terms 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. What’s Most Important in the 2024 Supplement: Torres v. Madrid (on the meaning of “seizures” under the Fourth Amendment Caniglia v. Strom (on the definition of “exigent circumstances” under the Fourth Amendment New note cases on the effective assistance of counsel in capital cases; the consequences of a Miranda violation; the immunity of a sitting President to a grand jury subpoena; changes of venue; the application of the Confrontation Clause to expert witnesses; the use of redaction to satisfy the Bruton rule; the continued viability of the Almendarez-Torres exception to Apprendi; the “dual sovereignty” doctrine in double jeopardy law; and the retroactivity of new Supreme Court decisions in federal habeas corpus Full text of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure




Murphy on Evidence


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'Murphy on Evidence' bridges the gap between the academic and practical treatment of the law of evidence. Written by an author with many years of experience in both practice and teaching, this book contains a comprehensive academic analysis of the law and a wealth of information on how the law is applied.




Blackstone's Statutes on Intellectual Property


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This volume gives coverage of international intellectual property law, containing all the up-to-date legislation relevant to undergraduate law degrees.







Discipline and Punish


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A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.