Book Review: Advocacy Skills
| Published date | 01 August 1991 |
| Date | 01 August 1991 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002201839105500310 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
BOOK
REVIEWS
Offences
of
Violence by
PETER
CARTER
and
RUTH
HARRISON.
Waterlow Publishers. Price £50
This is the ninth volume in the acclaimed series, 'The Criminal
Law Library', and its authors follow the established pattern in the
layout of the work. The proposed readership is intended to
comprise those who have had little previous knowledge of the
subject matter, and it is a great credit to the authors that they
have been able to produce acomprehensive work including
references to all manner of offences, some of which are rarely
prosecuted. Sexual offences and offences against public order are,
however, excluded.
Perhaps surprisingly, the book deals first with police powers and
then considers the range of substantive matters, starting with
assaults, progressing to assaults causing injury, and then following
the more familiar pattern of murder, manslaughter, and suicide
etc. Further into the work a chapter is set aside for offences against
the young, which refers not only to substantive offences where the
young are victims, but also to particular refinements of evidence
and procedure, such as the ability of courts to admit evidence
through television links. The appendix contains specimen in-
dictments and informations, and a table of offences and penalties.
This work is not intended to supplant the more established
reference works, but will be of particular help to students and
those seeking to improve their limited knowledge of criminal law.
The authors are to be congratulated on reducing a vast subject to
alength which can satisfactorily appear as an attractively presented
hardback book of less than 300 pages.
Advocacy Skills by
JUDGE
MICHAEL
HYAM.
Blackstone Press.
Price £8.95
This book will be of the greatest assistance to the aspiring advocate.
It
proceeds from the assumption that advocates may be made
rather than just born, and the advice and guidance within its pages
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