Course description
Ideal for busy criminal practitioners this webinar will review some of the most interesting case law to come out of the High Court and Court of Appeal in 2023.
Some of the topics explored by expert presenter Colin Beaumont include the 2023 Court of Appeal decision of R v Ward and whether a prosecutor had to be present following a guilty plea to a Bail Act offence, a challenge by way of judicial review against the decision of the district Judge to keep the case in the Youth Court for trial, consideration of ‘exceptional circumstances’ in a firearms sentencing case, to name a few.
Colin qualified as a barrister in 1982 before re-qualifying as a solicitor in 1996 and has been training the profession for more than 20 years. Be sure to tune in for his invaluable guidance.
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Training Course Content
Introduction
Ideal for busy criminal practitioners this webinar will review some of the most interesting case law to come out of the High Court and Court of Appeal in 2023.
What You Will Learn
This webinar will cover the following:
- A challenge by way of judicial review against the decision of the district Judge to keep the case in the Youth Court for trial
- Guidance concerning the offence of non-fatal strangulation
- The 2023 Court of Appeal decision of R v Ward - whether a prosecutor had to be present following a guilty plea to a Bail Act offence
- A consideration by the High Court when dealing with ‘matters relating to a trial on indictment’
- Consideration of the correct approach by a Judge when parliament has increased the sentence for a particular offence
- The test as to whether or not a Crown Court Judge has imposed a sentence which is not merely lenient but ‘unduly lenient’
- R v Marke - was the Judge right who allow cross- admissibility of the evidence of 2 complainants in a Crown Court trial?
- A consideration of ‘exceptional circumstances’ in a firearms sentencing case
- R v Clark - how best to deal with irregularities that had occurred regarding committal for sentence/sending for trial
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