Defending Suspects at Police Stations: The Practitioners' Guide to Advice and Representation

Cape, Ed

ISBN 10: 0905099842 / ISBN 13: 9780905099842

Published by Legal Action Group, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Defending Suspects at Police Stations: The Practitioners' Guide to Advice and Representation
• Publisher: Legal Action Group
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0905099842
• ISBN 13: 9780905099842
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 1000 grams

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Synopsis

Defending Suspects at Police Stations is the definitive guide for those advising detainees at the police station. It is an essential purchase for solicitors, duty solicitors, custody officers, criminal law students and in particular for those preparing for police station accreditation.The author’s authoritative guidance is unrivalled. Comprehensive yet highly accessible and practical, Defending Suspects provides the answers to every day practical questions and problems. Initial chapters explain the basic principles of defending clients at the investigative stage and examine the key provisions of PACE and the Codes of Practice. Subsequent chapters tackle the various stages of advising a client including taking instructions, advising on ‘silence’, interview strategies, samples and searches, identification procedures and the charge decision. The book also includes dedicated chapters on advising and assisting vulnerable clients, on enforcement of the PACE and Code provisions, and on advising immigration detainees.For this edition, Ed Cape is joined by Matthew Hardcastle and Sandra Paul of Kingsley Napley who bring years' of experience between them. Jawaid Luqmani of Luqmani, Thompson and Partners continues to provide his expertise in immigration law for chapter on immigration detainees.The eighth edition provides coveragethe revised Codes of Practice – particularly Codes C and H, which were most recently revised in 2019an up-to-date version of PACE, and the right to silence provisions of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, and links to the latest versions of the PACE Codes of Practicethe place of safety provisions of the amended Mental Health Act 1983the latest codes, regulations and guidance issued by the Home Office, the College of Policing and the CPSthe latest case-law

About the Author

Ed Cape is a solicitor and Professor of Criminal Law and Practice at the University of the West of England, Bristol, where he is the Director of the Centre for Legal Research.