Review: Jordan's Magistrates' Courts Criminal Practice 2006
| Published date | 01 September 2007 |
| DOI | 10.1350/pojo.2007.80.3.282 |
| Date | 01 September 2007 |
| Author | Rob R. Jerrard,Sally Ramage |
| Subject Matter | Review |
ROB R. JERRARD
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Jordan’s Magistrates’ Courts Criminal Practice 2006
David Brewer
Jordans, March 2006
ISBN: 1 84661 011 7; price £140 HB with CD-ROM included
Review by Sally Ramage
This book, as one of its category, uplifts the spirit. I cannot
enthuse about it enough.
First, the book cover is light-coloured and tactile; I have not
seen a similarly good book cover since Butterworth’s Clark Hall
and Morrison on Children. I also noticed the very sensible
feature of a soft but strong book spine, necessary for a large
book regularly used. Inside the book a useful three-year calendar
is featured at the front.
Jordan’s Magistrates Courts Criminal Practice is a good,
well-designed manual. Its contents are laid out in an excellent
manner in seven parts:
Part I Procedural Guides
Part II Elements of Offences
Part III Statutes
Part IV Statutory Instruments
Part V Practice Directions
Part VI Codes of Procedure and Guidelines
Part VII Non-prescribed Forms.
The book consists of 2,422 pages, the first 567 pages being the
essential manual, the rest being cross-referenced materials. As to
the many pages of statutes, I wonder why the method used by
some publishers of including only the relevant parts of a statute,
rather than the complete statute, is not used to make for a lighter
book.
‘Part II. Elements of offences’ is the essential star ingredient
in the book. To this effect, it may benefit from being more
comprehensive. The elements of offences are brilliantly laid out
but tackle only 62 criminal offences before the magistrates’
courts: affray; aggravated vehicle-taking; animal cruelty; assault;
282 The Police Journal, Volume 80 (2007)
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