The enactment of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and its accompanying codes of practice wrought fundamental changes to the law of evidence and completely recast the whole of the law on police powers, discipline and complaints. Since the act came into force a substantial body of case law has built up. This book aims to reflect these developments, and amendments to the Act effected by later enactments, such as the Criminal Justice Act 1988. Important areas where the law has moved on substantially include the exclusion of unfairly obtained evidence, confessions, corroboration, evidence of previous convictions and identification evidence. A new code on the use of tape recording came into force in July 1988 and new versions of the existing codes have been issued. The full text both of the Act and the Codes of Practice is reproduced.
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 135 mm
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978-0-421-45020-2 (9780421450202)
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Part 1 Commentary on the Act: stop and search; entry, search and seizure; arrest; detention; questioning and treatment of persons by police; codes of practice; documentary evidence; evidence in criminal proceedings - general; complaints against the police and discipline; police - general; miscellaneous and supplementary. Part 2 The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 - text of the Act: special procedure; preserved powers of arrest; provisions supplementary to sections 68 and 69; the police complaints authority; serious arrestable offences; the exercise by police officers of powers on stop and search; the searching of premises and the seizure of property; the detention, treatment and questioning of persons by the police; the identification of persons by police officers; tape recording. Appendices: The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 - application to armed forces; The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 - application to customs and excise; revised guidance to police officer on relationship between criminal and disciplinary proceedings; The Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1988; provisions in the Northern Ireland PACE Order for which there are no equivalent in the 1984 Act; two articles on identification parade procedures.
