Recent Book: Case and Comment: Criminal Case and Comment
| Published date | 01 September 1961 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X6103400515 |
| Date | 01 September 1961 |
| Author | C. H. Cooksley |
| Subject Matter | Recent Book |
some allege that relations between public and police in this country are not
what they should be.
The main part of the book deals with stopping, arresting, searching and
transporting and sets out insome detail systems of carrying out these functions.
There are 66 photographs to illustrate the text on the 53 pages of this
part
and they show in great detail the methods advocated. These methods are
based on the use of side arms and automatic weapons to cover the stopping,
removing and searching of offenders and may seem somewhat unrealistic to
British readers, but they do illustrate the problem
of
the American traffic
policeman and the danger which faces him when determined and armed
criminals are encountered in motor vehicles. The methods could be adapted
to suit the needs of the British Police, and
of
overseas police who normally
carry firearms, but the lesson to be found in this book, and learned, is to be
prepared for any eventuality and to have methods of dealing with the unusual
so engrained in personnel by training that they become automatic.
V.
T.DAVIS
CASE
AND
COMMENT
J. C.
SMITH
(Editor): Criminal Case and Comment. Sweet &Maxwell.
17s. 6d. (l2s. 6d. to subscribers to The Criminal Law Review).
THE 1960
EDITION
of Criminal Case and Comment follows the pattern of its
predecessors and provides, at a very reasonable cost, an invaluable book of
reference for use by all those upon whom falls a responsibility to keep abreast
of the most recent decisions affecting the interpretation of our criminal law.
Once again, Professor Smith has provided a very readable publication, most
efficientlyindexed, and alphabetically arranged in such a manner that reference
to any particular case or subject is simplicity itself. His pertinent comments on
each report are
of
the greatest assistance to the reader in assessing the degree
of importance which can be attached to the decisions in question.
This useful book is recommended to all concerned with the administration
of the criminal law. C. H.
COOKSLEY
A.L.
377
September-October
THE
NEW MORIARTY
W. J.
WILLIAMS
(Editor): Moriarty's Police Law. 16th Edition. Butterworths
16s. 6d.
THE HIGHEST
PRAISE
that can be bestowed upon the new edition of Moriarty is
that it is up to the standard of its predecessors. Only those who have tried their
hands at compressing the text of statutes to produce an accurate and explicit
summary can fully appreciate this masterpiece of condensation.
The considerable amount of new legislation, particularly with regard to road
traffic, effectively ensures that no work of this kind can ever be completely
up-to-date. Nevertheless, despite the fact that the new edition of Moriarty
contains only 16 additional pages, the editor has succeeded in dealing adequately
with no fewer than 27 new statutes and the relevant statutory instruments, in-
cluding a very useful new appendix which is sch, 11 of the Road Traffic Act,
1960,setting out the offences involving disqualification. So far as we have been
able to discover, all this has been done without error or serious omission. One
can appreciate the editor's point when he observes
that"
•..
the work of revising
the book has been difficult and protracted."
As an index to the larger legal work the book is invaluable. A reference to
Moriarty will often take one straight to the Act and section required and, what
is more, help one to understand the involved legal phraseology of the original
text.
It
is not too much to say that Moriarty is an indispensabletool of the police-
man's trade and at such a reasonable price no one can afford to handicap himself
with an out-of-date edition, especially if he is a candidate for the promotion
examination.
If
all this sounds panegyrical, it is because in this reviewer's opinion there is
no better value for money among text books. Even the blank pages need not
be wasted. They can be used for noting-up High Court cases and new legis-
lation as reported currently in the pages of the
POLICE
JOURNAL.
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