Beschreibung:
Surveying the discretions exercised by criminal trial courts at both the Crown Court and Magistrates Court level and discretion in the criminal appellate process, this book provides a theoretical framework with which to assess discretions, examines the evidential and procedural discretions whose existence is recorded in cases, statutes, and the reports of law reform bodies, and lists the known principles by which these discretions should be exercised.
Discretion - meaning, rationale, and regulation; trial discretions - the judge and the accused, the judge and witnesses, the judge and counsel, the judge and the public, the judge and the jury, the judge and the evidence, summary trials; appellate court discretions; correcting erroneous exercises of discretion.