- Advanced/Intermediate *6 hours CPD
This course brings lawyers right up to date on changes to procedure, evidence and sentencing in magistrates’ courts. It will include:
1. Case Management and Criminal Procedure Rules
2. Bad character and recent case law
3. Hearsay and recent case law
4. Disclosure
5. Sentencing
- Criminal Justice Act 2003 (CJA)
- General provisions
- Discounts for guilty pleas
- Community orders and breaches thereof
- Suspended sentences
- Crediting of periods of remand in custody
- Deferment of sentence
- Dangerous offenders
- SGC guidelines on all the above
- Miscellaneous CJA 2003 changes
6. Criminal law update