This Bloomsbury Professional book is an essential practitioner's guide to all areas of the law relating to abuse of process in criminal law; including delay, breach of promise, the destruction of evidence, entrapment and adverse publicity. Both learned and immensely practical, this much respected book provides a thought-provoking analysis of underlying issues and will help the reader to quickly assimilate and understand the evolving case law on different aspects of abuse of process. This edition covers significant changes to double jeopardy, the disclosure rules, non-disclosure abuse, terrorism, the Extradition Act 2003, the Criminal Justice Act 2003 and confiscation proceedings.
"Its authors are universally admired for their mastery of the subject", Mr. Justice Calvert-Smith.
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