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Absolute & Conditional Discharges
Advocacy
See Witness Evidence, Questioning & Courtroom Advocacy
See also: Examination-in-Chief; Cross-examination; Re-examination.
Appeal Against Conviction
Appeal Against Sentence
Appeal by way of Case Stated
Case Stated Appeals to the High Court (appeals on matters of law from the magistrates’ court)
Appeal following Guilty Plea
Bad Character of Defendants and Witnesses
see also Good Character
Barristers & Solicitors
About Chris Kessling (website creator and criminal barrister)
Basis of Plea
see Guilty Plea
Bind Overs
Case Management
Cautions & Conditional Cautions
Cautions & Conditional Cautions (Out-of-court-disposals)
Community Orders
Conditional Discharge
See Absolute & Conditional Discharges
Contact Defence-Barrister.co.uk
Costs in Criminal Cases
Credit for Guilty Plea
see Guilty Plea (Part 1)
Credit for Time Spent on Remand
Criminal Law and Court Procedure
Criminal Law (Criminal Law & Procedure)
Cross-Examination
Crown Court Trial
Crown Court Trial (Overview)
Crown Court or Magistrates’ Court?
Custodial Sentences
see Prison Sentences
see Maximum Sentences
Defence Case Statements
See also Disclosure in Criminal Cases
Deferred Sentences
Disclosure in Criminal Cases
Defence disclosure (Defence Statements and Notification of Defence Witnesses)
Early Release from Custody
See Release from Custody
Evidence-in-Chief
See Examination-in-Chief
Examination-in-Chief
Extended Sentences
Fines
Good Character of Defendants and Witnesses
see also Bad Character
Guilty Plea
Pleading Guilty Part 1
Pleading Guilty, Plea Bargaining and Unfitness to PleadPleading Guilty Part 2
Reduction in Sentence (Credit) for a Guilty Plea and for Assisting the ProsecutionPleading Guilty Part 3
Basis of Plea, Fact-finding Newton Hearings and Advance Sentence IndicationsPleading Guilty Part 4
Changing Plea and Appeals following a Guilty Plea
Hearsay Evidence
Hearsay (relying on evidence of absent witnesses)
Home Detention Curfew
See Release from custody
Jury Trial
See also Crown Court Trial (in particular Crown Court Trial - Jury)
See also Crown Court or Magistrates’ Court?
Magistrates’ Court Trial
Magistrates’ Court Trial (Overview)
Magistrates Court or Crown Court?
Mandatory Minimum Term Sentences
Maximum Sentences
Murder
No Case to Answer
O
Out-of-Court Disposals
See Cautions & Conditional Cautions
Plea and Trial Preparation Hearing
see Case Management (Crown Court)
Plea Bargaining
See Guilty Plea (Part 1)
Pleading Guilty
see Guilty Plea
Previous Convictions
see Bad Character of Defendants and Witnesses
Prison Sentences
Prosecution Decisions
Prosecution case
Questioning defendants and witnesses in court
See Witness Evidence, Questioning & Courtroom Advocacy
See also Examination-in-Chief; Cross-Examination; Re-Examination
Re-examination
Release from custody
Remand
See Credit for Time Spent on Remand
Restraining Orders
Sentences
Sentencing
How Sentencing Works (Sentencing Home page)
Sentencing Guidelines
Sentencing Guidelines (How judges and magistrates decide on sentence)
Sentencing Hearing
Sentencing Indications
Solicitors
See Barristers & Solicitors
Special Measures
See Witness Protection and Support
Summons
See Witnesses (for witness summons)
See also Criminal Law and Court Procedure (starting a case with a Summons)
Suspended Sentences
Trial
See Magistrates’ Court Trial & Crown Court Trial
Unused Material
See Disclosure in Criminal Cases
Verdict
See Magistrates’ Court Trial (Part 4) and Crown Court Trial (Part 6)
Witnesses
See prosecution witnesses/witness statements in the Magistrates’ Court Trial Guide and the Crown Court Trial Guide
Witness Competence and Compellability
Witness Competence and Compellability (Who is capable of giving evidence and who can be required to do so?)
Witness Protection and Support
Witness Protection and Support (Special Measures, Witness Anonymity Orders, Witness Interference, Witness Protection)
Witness Evidence, Questioning & Courtroom Advocacy
Witness Evidence and Questioning (calling and questioning witnesses, written witness statements, agreed evidence, self-incrimination, perjury)
Witness Summons
Witness Summons (applying for, objecting to and failing to comply with a witness summons)