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WHAT'S NEW FOR ARCHBOLD 2016?

• Topical new coverage
• New content list
  • Statutes
  • Codes of Practice
  • Statutory instruments
  • Practice direction
  • Code of practice
  • Cases

TOPICAL NEW COVERAGE:

• Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 – this Act creates several new offences, including disclosing private sexual photographs or films with intent to cause distress (“revenge porn”), jury misconduct offences (in the Juries Act 1974), and the corrupt or other improper exercise of police powers and privileges (Chap. 31). It also amends the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 to introduce the controversial criminal courts charge (Chap. 6), alters sentencing powers for certain serious offences, and makes a host of other amendments relating to criminal justice, all covered in the new edition.
• Modern Slavery Act 2015 – this substantial new Act (see Chap. 19) includes the consolidation of the existing offences of slavery and human trafficking, an increase in the penalties for those offences, and the introduction of a statutory defence for slavery or trafficking victims compelled to commit criminal offences and new civil “slavery and trafficking prevention and risk” orders. Prosecution of the new offences is likely to become commonplace, rendering the Act of central importance for law enforcement and the courts.
• Serious Crime Act 2015 – another wide-ranging Act which creates several new offences, including a hacking offence (in the Computer Misuse Act 1990), participating in the criminal activities of an organised crime group, sexual communication with a child (in the Sexual Offences Act 2003), possession of a paedophile manual, and controlling or coercive behaviour in intimate or family relationships. Among the numerous amendments to existing legislation covered in the latest edition, significant changes are made to the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 and the confiscation regime.
• Criminal Procedure Rules 2015 – together with reissued Criminal Practice Directions (set out in Appendix B), both now substantially reorganised and amended.
• Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations – important amendments to the 2013 regulations covered in Appendix G.

NEW CONTENT LIST:

STATUTES

• Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015
• Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015
• Deregulation Act 2015
• Modern Slavery Act 2015
• Serious Crime Act 2015

STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS:

• Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (Commencement No. 7, Saving and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014 No. 2590)
• Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (Commencement No. 7, Saving and Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014 No. 2754)
• Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (Commencement No. 8, Saving and Transitional Provisions) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 373)
• Civil and Criminal Legal Aid (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 1416)
• Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Commencement No. 17) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 819)
• Costs in Criminal Cases (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 12) (§ 6-81)
• Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Commencement No. 13 and Savings) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 964)
• Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (Commencement No. 1, Saving and Transitional Provisions) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 778)
• Criminal Justice and Data Protection (Protocol No. 36) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014 No. 3141)
• Criminal Justice (European Protection Order) (England and Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014 No. 3300)
• Criminal Justice (Specified Class B Drugs) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 9)
• Criminal Legal Aid (Contribution Orders) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 710)
• Criminal Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 326)
• Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014 No. 2422)
• Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 1369)
• Criminal Procedure Rules 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 1490)
• Deregulation Act 2015 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 994)
• Drug Driving (Specified Limits) (England and Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014 No. 2868)
• Legal Aid, Community Legal Service and Criminal Defence Service (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 838)
• Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Commencement No. 11) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 504)
• Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 2015)
• Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 3271)
• Modern Slavery Act 2015 (Commencement No. 1, Saving and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 1476)
• Modern Slavery Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 1472)
• Money Laundering (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 11)
• Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 40)
• Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Remote Reviews of Detention) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014 No. 3279)
• Policing and Crime Act 2009 (Commencement No. 10, Transitional Provision and Savings) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 983)
• Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (Criminal Courts Charge) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 796)
• Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Code of Practice for Powers of Entry and Description of Relevant Persons) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 240)
• Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Covert Human Intelligence Sources: Code of Practice) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014 No. 3119)
• Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Covert Surveillance and Property Interference: Code of Practice) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014 No. 3103)
• Restraint Orders (Legal Aid Exception and Relevant Legal Aid Payments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 868)
• Road Safety Act 2006 (Commencement No. 11 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 560)
• Serious Crime Act 2015 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 820)
• Serious Crime Act 2015 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 1428)
• Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 55)
• Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 (Commencement No. 14) (England and Wales) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015 No. 818)

PRACTICE DIRECTION:

• The Criminal Practice Directions 2015
• The Practice Direction (Costs in Criminal Proceedings) 2015

CODE OF PRACTICE:

• Code A under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (exercise by police officers of statutory powers of stop and search (2015 revision)

CASES:

• Abuse of process; multiple prosecutions on the same facts; R. v. Antoine (Jordan)
• Abuse of process; retention of exhibits; Clay v. South Cambridgeshire JJ.
• Administering of poison, etc., so as to endanger life; unborn children; Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority v. First-Tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber)
• Advance indication of sentence; R. v. Martin
• Alteration of sentence; mental health; R. v. Catchpole
• Alternative verdicts; R. v. Vaughan
• Appeal; bias; police officers as jurors; Armstrong v. U.K.
• Appeal; conduct of counsel; R. v. McCook
• Appeal; loss of time orders; R. v. Gray
• Appeal to Court of Appeal; “criminal cause or matter”; R. (Panesar) v. Central Criminal Court
• Bad character; defendants aged 20; R. v. Clark (Lucy)
• Bad character; important matter in issue between defendant and co-defendant; R. v. Daly
• Bad character; “reprehensible behaviour”; R. v. M.
• Bad character; whether legitimate to go behind previous agreed basis of plea; R. v. Wynes
• Case management; exclusion of evidence; ending prosecution; R. v. Boardman
• Case management; prosecution failure to disclose evidence; abuse of process; R. v. S. (D.) and S. (T.)
• Causing death by driving; foreign drivers; sentence; R. v. Fleury
• Causing serious injury by dangerous driving; sentence; R. v. Buckle
• Causing serious injury by dangerous driving; disqualification; R. v. Ellis
• Closing speeches; unrepresented defendant; R. v. Cojan
• Confessions without benefit of legal advice; compatibility with ECHR; Ibrahim v. U.K.
• Community impact statements; R. v. Skelton
• Compensation order; R. v. Carrington
• Compensation order; together with confiscation order; R. v. Beaumont
• Confiscation order; benefit; fresh proceedings; R. v. Chahal
• Confiscation order; jointly held property; R. v. Dad (Amer Hussain), Dad (Nadeem) and Dad (Munsif)
• Confiscation order; overseas property; R. v. Sheidu
• Confiscation order; postponement; forfeiture order; R. v. Guraj
• Confiscation order; proceedings in absence of the accused; R. v. Ali (Salah)
• Confiscation order; valuation of benefit; R. v. Elsayed
• Contempt; counsel; Re West (Ian Stuart) (a barrister)
• Costs; “as a result of an unnecessary or improper act”; Evans v. Serious Fraud Office
• Costs; award against third parties; R. v. Capita Translation and Interpreting Ltd
• Costs; private prosecutions; R. v. Zinga (Costs) (Practice Note)
• Costs; special preparation; R. v. French
• Cross-examination; child or vulnerable witness; multi-handed trials; R. v. Jonas
• Cross-examination; vulnerable witnesses; R. v. Lubemba; R. v. P. (J.)
• Custody time limits; extension; R. (Campbell-Brown) v. Central Criminal Court
• Diminished responsibility; uncontradicted medical evidence; R. v. Brennan
• Disqualification from driving (non-motoring offences); R. v. Ketteridge
• “Double jeopardy”; length of custodial sentence; Att.-Gen.’s Reference (No. 45 of 2014) (R. v. Afzal); R. v. Afzal and Malik
• Drugs; supply; R. v. Martin and Brimecome
• Drugs guideline; conspiracy offences; R. v. Khan
• Drugs guideline; “skunk” offences; R. v. Dang
• Encouraging or assisting suicide; compatibility with ECHR; Nicklinson v. U.K.; Lamb v. U.K.
• Expert evidence; mental state and I.Q.; R. v. Jackson-Mason
• Expert evidence; reliability of witness; R. v. H.
• Explosives; sentence; attacks on ATMs; Att.-Gen.’s References (Nos 74 to 78 of 2014)
• False imprisonment and kidnapping; sentence; Att.-Gen.’s References (Nos 92 and 93 of 2014) (R. v. Gibney)
• Firearms; possession of prohibited weapons; concurrent or consecutive sentencing; R. v. Lewis and R. v. Gribbin
• Firearms; special exemptions; R. v. Shahabi-Shack
• Fitness to plead; “objective evidence”; R. v. Wells; R. v. Masud; R. v. Hone; R. v. Kail
• Good character directions; R. v. Hunter (Nigel); R. v. Saruwu (Joseph); R. v. Johnstone (Ian); R. v. Walker (Alan); R. v. Lonsdale (Paul)
• Guilty plea; first reasonable opportunity; amnesia; R. v. Creathorne
• Hearsay; Horncastle v. U.K.
• Hearsay; res gestae principle; Barnaby v. DPP
• Hearsay; witness “cannot be found”; R. v. M.
• Hospital and limitation directions; R. v. Poole
• Hospital orders; R. v. Vowles
• Human rights; respect for private and family life; terrorism; port and border control; Beghal v. DPP (Secretary of State for the Home Department intervening)
• Human rights; retention of personal data; R. (Catt) v. Association of Chief Police Officers of England, Wales and Northern Ireland (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening); R. (T.) v. Commr of Police of the Metropolis (Secretary of State for the Home Department intervening)
• Indecent images of children; dangerous offender provisions; R. v. Cheshire
• Indictment; defects; R. v. Clarke (Dean)
• Indictment; duplicity; R. v. A.
• Inferences; failure to give evidence; R. v. Rafik
• Inferences; silence following legal advice; R. v. Sakyi
• Legal aid for witness opposing issue of witness summons; M. v. Director of Legal Aid Casework
• Live link directions; defendant; R. v. Rahman
• Manslaughter; R. v. F. (J.) and E. (N.)
• Misconduct in public office; R. v. A.B.C., E.F.G. and I.J.K.; R. v. Sabey
• Mode of trial; child or young person; R. (DPP) v. South Tyneside Youth Court
• Money laundering; meaning of “criminal property”; R. v. G.H.
• Murder; loss of control; R. v. Gurpinar; R. v. Kojo-Smith and Caton
• Murder; whole-life terms; R. v. Reynolds (Jamie); R. v. Rosser (Anwar)
• Murder; whole-life terms; compatibility with ECHR; Hutchinson v. U.K.
• Plea of guilty; change of basis after prosecution error; R. v. Bergin
• Reduction in litigators’ fees; R. (London Criminal Courts Solicitors’ Association and Criminal Law Solicitors’ Association) v. Lord Chancellor
• Reporting restrictions; right to fair trial; R. (Wang Yam) v. Central Criminal Court
• Retrial; following two jury disagreements; R. v. Burton
• Search warrant; disclosure; R. (Mills and Mills) v. Sussex Police and Southwark Crown Court
• Search warrant; serious breaches; R. (Chatwani) v. National Crime Agency and Birmingham Magistrates’ Court
• Sentence; advance indication; Att.-Gen.’s Reference (No. 85 of 2014) (R. v. A.)
• Sentence; bail; time spent subject to curfew; R. v. Thorsby; R. v. Glasson; R. v. Pilkington; R. v. Robinson
• Sentence; discount for guilty plea; R. v. Claydon
• Sentence; guideline on bail offences; sentencing outside recommended range; R. v. Armaselu
• Sentence; guideline on burglary offences; multiple participants as an aggravating factor; R. v. Blaydes
• Sentence; guideline on drug offences; conspiracy to supply; taking account of purity levels; R. v. Kelly
• Sentence; guideline on drug offences; “street dealing” categorisation; R. v. Williams
• Sentence; guideline on sexual offences; rehabilitation; alternatives to custody; R. v. Jones (David William)
• Sentence; minimum term; “unjust”; R. v. Gallone
• Sentence; minimum term; youthfulness; R. v. De Silva
• Sentencing guidelines; mentally disordered offenders; R. v. Balogh
• Sexual history evidence; R. v. All-Hilly
• Sexual offences; historic cases; R. v. Clifford (Frank Maxwell)
• Taxation; graduated fee scheme; pages of prosecution evidence; R. v. Dodd, R. v. Sana and R. v. Furniss
• Taxation; graduated fee scheme; retrials; R. v. Connors
• Theft guideline; interpretation of “vulnerable” victim; R. v. Sayed
• Trial without jury; Misick v. The Queen
• Voluntary bill of indictment; Serious Fraud Office v. Evans (No. 2)
• Voluntary bill of indictment; costs; R. v. Evans (Eric) (No. 2); Serious Fraud Office v. Evans (No. 2)
• Voluntary bill of indictment; costs; quantum; Evans v. Serious Fraud Office

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