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14 Crim. L.F. 101 (2003)
Covering the Entire English Criminal Justice System

handle is hein.journals/crimlfm14 and id is 101 raw text is: Book Review SABINE GLEB* COVERING THE ENTIRE ENGLISH CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Reviewing: Peter Murphy, editor in chief, Eric Stockdale, Consultant editor, Diane Birch, Christopher J. Emmins, Peter Fortune, Marianne Giles, Michael J. Gunn, Michael Hirst, Peter Hungerford-Welch, Adrian Keane, Leonard Leigh, Richard McMahon, John Sprack, Richard D. Taylor, Martin Wasik, authors, Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2003, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, 2557 pp. Foreign lawyers (and most English lawyers, judging by the success of this work in the United Kingdom) venturing into the ups and downs of English criminal law and procedure need a good guide. Like the twelve previous annual editions, Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2003 is such a guide. The volume is a rather weighty handbook, covering the entire English criminal justice system. It is divided into General Principles of Criminal Law (Part A), Offences (Part B), Road Traffic Offences (Part C), Procedure (Part D), Sentencing (Part E), and Evidence (Part F). The headings alone already indicate the book's focus on practitioners' needs. This special focus has not changed since its first release and has never lost sight of its goal: dealing comprehensively and practicably with the entirety of the law, while accepting the fact that some omissions are unavoidable and will not hurt. The contents of the appendices reinforce this focus on the needs of prac- titioners. The appendices comprise the Crown Court Rules 1982 (Appen- dix 1), the Codes of Practice under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Appendix 2), Attorney-General's Guidelines (Appendix 3), the Codes for Crown Prosecutors (Appendix 4) and the Plea and Direction Hearing: Judges Questionnaire (Appendix 5), as well as the most important statutes on disclosure (Appendix 6) and on human rights (Appendix 7). * Senior researcher, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg i.Br., Germany. Criminal Law Forum 14: 101-109, 2003. © 2003 Kluwer Law International. Printed in the Netherlands.

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