"This new text collates the CPS charging standards and policy documents for the first time in a standalone form. The charging standards cover theft, driving offences, drug offences, public order offences, public justice offences, and offences against the person. Guidance and policy documents comprise rape, domestic violence, and race and religious crimes. In addition, this text contains the Code for Crown Prosecutors." "The Charging Standards are fully cross-referenced to Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2005, Archbold 2005, and Wilkinson's Road Traffic Offences. The book also provides a comprehensive index, table of cases and table of statutes, ensuring the standards are easy to navigate."--BOOK JACKET.

"Project of the American Bar Association, Criminal Justice Standards Committee, Criminal Justice Section"--T.p. verso.

The authors analyse central aspects of criminal law in the context of the assumptions surrounding it, and employ a number of critical approaches, including a feminist perspective, to give insights into the current state of the law.

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.