Blackstone's Magistrates' Court Handbook 2015

Anthony Edwards is Senior Partner of TV Edwards, a duty solicitor, a supervisor for the specialist fraud panel and a higher courts advocate (Criminal Courts). He has served at almost every level of committee in the criminal justice system and is currently a member of the Council of Justice, of the editorial board of Criminal Law Review, and a member of the Law Commission's advisory group on criminal law. He is also one of the country's leading trainers in criminal law.

PART A PROCEDURE AND EVIDENCE ; A1 Abuse of Process ; A2 Adjournments ; A3 Admissibility and Exclusion of Evidence ; A4 Allocation and Plea Before Venue ; A5 Amending Charge ; A6 Appeals and Reopening ; A7 Bad Character ; A8 Bail ; A9 Binding Rulings ; A10 Case Management ; A11 Civil Orders ; A12 Commencing Proceedings: Time Limits ; A13 Costs ; A14 Court-Appointed Legal Representatives ; A15 Custody Time Limits ; A16 Disclosure ; A17 Evidence in Civil Cases ; A18 Extradition ; A19 Handcuffs Applications ; A20 Hearsay ; A21 Identification Evidence ; A22 Initial Details of the Prosecution Case ; A23 Legal Aid ; A24 Mental Disorder ; A25 Misbehaviour at Court ; A26 Presence of Defendant in Court ; A27 Remand Periods ; A28 Reporting Restrictions ; A29 Sending and Transfer for Trial ; A30 Special Measures and Vulnerable Witnesses ; A31 Submission of No Case ; A32 Transfer/Remittal of Criminal Cases ; A33 Video Links ; A35 Warrants ; A36 Witnesses, Issue of Summons or Warrant ; PART B YOUTHS IN THE ADULT COURT ; B2 B1 Age of Offender and the Position of Those Attaining 18 ; B2 B2 Bail ; B3 B3 Breach of Orders, and New Offences Committed During an Order ; B4 B4 Jurisdiction of the Adult Magistrates' Court over Youths ; B5 B5 Managing the Case ; B6 B6 Parents and Guardians ; B7 B7 Remittal to the Youth Court for Trial/Sentence ; B8 B8 Reporting Restrictions ; B9 B9 Sentencing ; B10 B10 Summary Trials Involving Youths ; PART C OFFENCES ; C1 Animal Offences ; C2 Anti-Social Behaviour Order, Breach of ; C3 Bail: Failure to Surrender ; C4 Communication Network Offences ; C5 Criminal Damage ; C6 Drugs ; C7 Education Act ; C8 Immigration Offences ; C9 Prison Offences ; C10 Protective Order, Breach of ; C11 Public Order ; C12 Road Traffic Offences-Definitions ; C13 Road Traffic Offences ; C14 Sexual Offences ; C15 Dishonesty and Offences Against Property ; C16 Offences Against the Person ; PART D SENTENCING ; D1 Age of Offender ; D2 Alteration of Sentence ; D3 Anti-Social Behaviour Orders ; D4 Banning Orders (Football) ; D5 Bind Over ; D6 Committal for Sentence ; D7 Community Orders and Sentences: General ; D8 Compensation Order ; D9 Confiscation: Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 ; D10 Custodial Sentences ; D11 Dangerous Offenders ; D12 Deferment of Sentence ; D13 Deprivation Order ; D14 Detention in Young Offender Institution ; D15 Discharges; Conditional and Absolute ; D16 Discounts for Early Plea ; D17 Disqualification from Driving ; D18 Disqualification of Company Directors ; D19 Drinking Banning Order ; D20 Exclusion from Licensed Premises ; D21 Financial Circumstances Order ; D22 Fines ; D23 Forfeiture Order ; D24 Guardianship and Hospital Orders ; D25 Newton Hearings ; D26 Offences Taken into Consideration ; D27 Penalty Points for Driving Offences ; D28 Prescribed Minimum Sentences ; D29 Pre-Sentence Drug Testing ; D30 Pre-Sentence Reports ; D31 Previous Convictions ; D32 Prosecution Costs ; D33 Racially and Religiously Aggravated Crimes ; D34 Remand to Hospital for Reports ; D35 Restitution Order ; D36 Restraining Order ; D37 Return to Custody ; D38 Sexual Offences Notification Requirements ; D39 Sexual Offences Prevention Order ; D40 Sexual Orientation, Disability, or Transgender Identity ; D41 Victim Surcharge Order ; D42 Suspended Sentences ; D43 Time on Remand or Qualifying Curfew ; APPENDICES ; Appendix 1 Case Management and Standard Case Preparation Time Limits ; Appendix 2 Extracts from Criminal Procedure Rules 2014 ; Appendix 3 Indictable Only Offences and Offences Carrying Life Imprisonment ; Appendix 4 Relevant Offences for the Purposes of Special Measures Direction ; Appendix 5 Specified Offences under the Criminal Justice Act 2003, Schedule 15 (Dangerous Offender Provisions) ; Appendix 6 Fraud Guideline ; Appendix 7 Rehabilitation Periods