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In this text, the criminal justice system will be examined in two sections. First, the law relating to important pre-trial matters, up to and including the admissibility of confession evidence in court, will be examined and, second, the institutional and procedural aspects of prosecution and matters relating to bail, classification of offences, trials, plea bargaining and the jury will be dealt with. In examining these topics, it is important to keep in mind the various aims of the criminal justice system and the extent to which the existing law serves these aims. Amongst the aims to be borne in mind are the following: (a) to detect crime and convict those who have committed it; (b) to have rules relating to arrest, search, questioning, interrogation and admissibility of evidence which do (d) to have rules as above which do not unnecessarily impede the proper to ensure that innocent persons are not convicted; to maintain public order; (g) to maintain public confidence in the criminal justice system; and (h) properly to balance considerations of justice and fair procedure with those of efficiency and funding. In the following article, Frances Gibb, legal editor of examines
DOI link for In this text, the criminal justice system will be examined in two sections. First, the law relating to important pre-trial matters, up to and including the admissibility of confession evidence in court, will be examined and, second, the institutional and procedural aspects of prosecution and matters relating to bail, classification of offences, trials, plea bargaining and the jury will be dealt with. In examining these topics, it is important to keep in mind the various aims of the criminal justice system and the extent to which the existing law serves these aims. Amongst the aims to be borne in mind are the following: (a) to detect crime and convict those who have committed it; (b) to have rules relating to arrest, search, questioning, interrogation and admissibility of evidence which do (d) to have rules as above which do not unnecessarily impede the proper to ensure that innocent persons are not convicted; to maintain public order; (g) to maintain public confidence in the criminal justice system; and (h) properly to balance considerations of justice and fair procedure with those of efficiency and funding. In the following article, Frances Gibb, legal editor of examines
In this text, the criminal justice system will be examined in two sections. First, the law relating to important pre-trial matters, up to and including the admissibility of confession evidence in court, will be examined and, second, the institutional and procedural aspects of prosecution and matters relating to bail, classification of offences, trials, plea bargaining and the jury will be dealt with. In examining these topics, it is important to keep in mind the various aims of the criminal justice system and the extent to which the existing law serves these aims. Amongst the aims to be borne in mind are the following: (a) to detect crime and convict those who have committed it; (b) to have rules relating to arrest, search, questioning, interrogation and admissibility of evidence which do (d) to have rules as above which do not unnecessarily impede the proper to ensure that innocent persons are not convicted; to maintain public order; (g) to maintain public confidence in the criminal justice system; and (h) properly to balance considerations of justice and fair procedure with those of efficiency and funding. In the following article, Frances Gibb, legal editor of examines
ABSTRACT
Frances Gibb, 'Our legal rights in jeopardy' (2001) The Times, 13 March Is Jack Straw the most dangerous man in Britain? The question once posed by Conservatives of the Prime Minister is now being asked by lawyers of the Home Secretary. He is guilty, they say, of a steady dismantling of the basic tenets of the criminal justice system: the principle of the presumption of innocence is being eroded and the right to a fair trial and legal representation being whittled away so as to bring more criminals to book.