Review: Introduction to Criminal Law
| Published date | 01 January 1965 |
| Date | 01 January 1965 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002201836502900110 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
CRIMINAL LAW
ADDITIONS
&ALTERATIONS 63
If
authorised in writing by the local authority an officer of
that
authority may
enter
any place he reasonably believes to be
used as a scrap metal store
and
which is
not
registered
under
the
Act
but
he may
not
use force to do so unless he has a
warrant
under
s. 6 (3). (S. 6 (2)
and
(4)).
If
information is laid on oath ajustice of
the
peace may
issue a
warrant
authorising force to be used to enter premises
to secure compliance with
the
provisions of
the
Act or to
ascertain
that
they are being complied with (s. 6 (3)).
Review
INTRODUCTION
TO
CRIMINAL
LAW,
By
Rupert
Cross,
D.C.L.
and
Philip
Asterly Jones
LL.B.
Fifth
Edition, Butterworth &Co. (Publishers)
Ltd.
Price 38s. 6d. net.
Although this is a
students'
book it will be of considerable value to many
others,
such
as lay magistrates, who require an understanding of
the
general
principles of the criminal law and its administration.
For
those unfamiliar
with this work it should be said
that
Part
Icontains auseful statement of
general principles such as the scope of
the
doctrine of mens rea,
and
the
interpretation of statute law in particular with reference to
the
difficult topic
of absolute liability.
Part
II
is concerned with
the
principal types of
crime, containing in reference to homicide avaluable discussion of Director
of
Public Prosecutions vSmith (1961,
A.C.
290; 25
J.c.L.
39)
and
affords
useful guidance on
the
difficult subject of larceny by finding.
Part
III
con-
sists of an account of the various courts in which crimes may be tried
and
the
mode of trial applicable respectively to summary cases
and
cases tried on
indictment.
This
book states the law as at
the
end of
March
1964
but
owing to
the
exigencies of printing a
number
of important cases decided about this
time
have been omitted.
These
include when amagistrate, in the exercise of
preventive justice, may
bind
over
the
prosecutor (Sheldon v. Bromfield
Justices,
1964,2
W.L.R.
1066; 28
J.c.L.
236);
and
when he should refuse to
allow a prosecution to be withdrawn (R. vPhipps: ex parte Alton. 1964, 2
W.L.R.
802; 28
].C.L.
165).
Such
inevitable omissions do not seriously
detract from the very real value to be derived from this book.
It
may be added
that
apleasing feature is
that
not only are cases fully cited in the footnotes
but
the
reader is frequently referred to articles and
other
text books where he will
find a more detailed
study
of
the
particular topic which this book can of
necessity only deal with in outline.
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