- Update/Intermediate * 3 hours CPD
This wide-reaching new Act creates important new powers designed to prevent or disrupt serious crime - the Serious Crime Prevention Order - and replaces the old offences of "incitement" with a new set of inchoate offences. The new legislation is of fundamental importance to all Criminal practitioners.
Areas covered:
- The "traditional" inchoate offences; attempt and incitement
- What is a "serious" offence
- Serious crime prevention orders - the new powers
- Safeguards for the individual
- Privileged information
- Forfeiture orders
- New inchoate offences
- The "reasonableness” defence
- Statutory exemptions