Judicial Discretion and Criminal Litigation

This book is about the discretions exercised by criminal trial courts both at Crown Court and Magistrates' Court level, and about discretion in the criminal appellate process. The aim is to provide a theoretical framework within which to discuss and assess the discretions. It also attempts to examine the evidential and procedural discretions whose existence is recorded in cases, statutes and the reports of law reform bodies and to list the known principles by which these discretions should be exercised.