Criminal Law and Procedure in New South Wales

This work is specifically designed to meet the needs of students who will be studying criminal law over one semester. This work states the basic principles and provides the fundamental source material required for a study of New South Wales criminal law and procedure. It examines the substantive law in a procedural and evidentiary context. This text gives students the thorough grounding they need in the basic principles of the criminal justice system before moving to the detail of their application in an expanding range of discrete contexts. It also provides practitioners with an introduction to the principal authorities and statutory provisions governing the practice of criminal law in New South Wales. Important Features: Explanatory flowcharts introduce readers to the framework of general principles before proceeding to an examination of the principles in detail. The book provides a series of examples and problems suitable for discussion in lectures, tutorials and students' study groups.