Review: Anthony & Berryman's Magistrates' Court Guide 2006
| Author | Brian Rowland |
| Published date | 01 December 2006 |
| Date | 01 December 2006 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1350/pojo.2006.79.4.381 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
ROB R. JERRARD
Reviews Editor
www.rjerrard.co.uk
REVIEWS
ANTHONY & BERRYMAN’S MAGISTRATES’ COURT
GUIDE 2006
T. G. Moore
LexisNexis (Butterworths), 2005
ISBN: 1405707518; price £54
Reviewed by Brian Rowland
The annual publication of Anthony & Berryman’s is always
something to look forward to because it is such a pleasure. Here
is set out all that anybody would want to know about the
jurisdiction of the magistrates’ courts, except the most obscure
set of Regulations that crop up on court lists from time to time.
This year, however, there is a difference. The 2006 edition marks
the end of the editorship era of T.G. Moore, which now passes
into the hands and experience of Fred Davies. The reviewer
welcomes the latter and says thank you to the former.
In his last Preface Moore pays tribute to his wife’s help in
editing the work, which could well be overlooked, not by the
editor, but by the readers, whose anxiety to scan the legal
contents often leads to by-passing the introductory pages. So the
reviewer also wishes to record his thanks for her important
contribution to the book.
This book has always been a true court guide that has
allowed court clerks to refer to it quickly and enabled practi-
tioners to hurriedly look up the sentence, once guilt is estab-
lished. It is also easy enough for the lay person to understand; in
short it is a quick-reference textbook for everyone.
It is difficult to find fault with this publication, but if one
were looking in that direction, perhaps the page numbers could
be moved to the outside margins alongside the alphabetical
references, which the reviewer readily accepts is the standard
means of finding one’s way around this volume, although page
numbers are referred to in the table of contents.
The editor quite rightly draws attention to the massive
changes in sentencing which the operation of the Criminal
Justice Act 2003 has brought about, largely reflecting the chang-
ing sentencing policy that has been government policy for a
The Police Journal, Volume 79 (2006) 381
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