This book serves as a course companion and revision guide to the BPTC Criminal Litigation, Evidence and Sentencing course and examination. It sets out the course material in a simple, stripped-down form suitable for a first overview and for revision. Students can both consult this guide when first introduced to a topic, to provide a quick and comprehensible overview, and can rely on it during revision.
The multiple choice questions in this book have been designed to help Bar Vocational Course students reinforce their knowledge in the core areas of evidence, civil procedure, criminal procedure and sentencing.
Criminal Litigation is a comprehensive guide to the evidential and procedural rules and skills of criminal litigation and advocacy. The manual provides effective practice knowledge of the fundamental elements of criminal procedure, with an emphasis on client care issues. It discusses the role of the solicitor at all stages of the criminal process, where the case is disposed of in either the District Court or the Superior Courts. Procedure is explained from both a prosecution and a defence perspective, beginning with arrest and proceeding to trial and beyond, in a sequential manner that reflects the criminal justice process. The law on regulatory crime sometimes referred to as white collar or corporate crime is distinguished, at a time when legislation in this area is being enacted. This third edition has been extensively revised to include new chapters on regulatory crime, bail law and the European arrest warrant procedure. It is essential reading for trainee solicitors on the Professional Practice Course, and an excellent resource for Irish legal practitioners and other actors in the criminal justice system. Online Resource Centre Changes and developments in the area will be covered by regular updates to the Online Resource Centre.
This book follows the Civil Litigation process from pre-action through to trial and beyond, in a chronological structure with complete coverage of the BPTC syllabus, no more and no less. Diagrams and text aid you towards successfully answering the knowledge based MCQs (and application based SBAs) in the assessment. The beginning of each chapter sets out which of the examinable elements of the CPR and Statutes it contains, whilst the chapter itself is made up of sub-headings which exactly replicate the syllabus and the examinable material. At the end of each chapter there is a Most Concise Summary of the contents of the chapter. In addition, a table at the end of each chapter charts your progress through the coverage of the syllabus so that by the end of the final chapter you can be fully confident that you have covered the whole course in preparation for the 2020 assessments. The author has taught on the LPC/BPTC, writing and marking professional final assessments for over 24 years.
"The second in a series of litigation skills publications, this practical guidebook aimed at junior to intermediate defence lawyers working in the District Court, including clear guidance and useful tools such as sample documents and flowcharts"--Publisher information.
This book discusses the under-researched relationship between sentencing and the legitimacy of punishment. It argues that there is an increasing gap between what is perceived as legitimate punishment and the sentencing decisions of the criminal courts. Drawing on a wide variety of empirical research evidence, the book explores how sentencing could be developed within a more socially-inclusive framework for the delivery of trial justice. In the international context, such developments are directly relevant to the future role of the International Criminal Court, especially its ability to deliver more coherent and inclusive trial outcomes that contribute to social reconstruction. Similarly, in the national context, these issues have a vital role to play in helping to re-position trial justice as a credible cornerstone of criminal justice governance where social diversity persists. In so doing the book should help policy-makers in appreciating the likely implications for criminal trials of 'mainstreaming' restorative forms of justice. Sentencing and the Legitimacy of Trial Justice firmly ties the issue of legitimacy to the relevant context for delivering 'justice'. It suggests a need to develop the tools and methods for achieving this and offers some novel solutions to this complex problem. This book will be a valuable resource for graduate students, academics, practitioners and policy makers in the field of criminal justice as well as scholars interested in socio-legal and cross-disciplinary approaches to the analysis of criminal process and sentencing and the development of theory and comparative methodology in this area.
Criminal Litigation, Evidence and Sentencing.Sugarloaf Revision Guide.Bar Professional Training Course BPTC.Criminal litigation, Evidence and Sentencing is an important and challenging part of the Bar professional training course. This book assumes the reader has completed LLB or GDL successfully. This book is not intended to be a beautiful piece of prose. It seeks to avoid long winded narrative and instead distils the syllabus into bullet points that are easy to read and easy to remember. The aim is to help students achieve a strong understanding early. This book is based on the structure of the BPTC syllabus at May 2016. It is definitely not to be read instead of the practitioner text, latest BPTC Syllabus and textbook. Its aim is to significantly help with revision.
