Criminal Practice and Procedure New South Wales

Criminal Practice and Procedure NSW is an indispensable tool for criminal law practitioners across the State. Authored by the Hon Roderick Howie KC, former judge of the Supreme Court of NSW, and the Hon Peter Johnson, also a former judge of the Supreme Court of NSW and now the Chief Commissioner of the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission. Content consists of, for the most part, annotated legislation. It includes over 140 Acts/Regulations, with the most important of these being comprehensively annotated by Howie and Johnson. The topic areas with the densest amount of annotations to legislation include Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Appeal and Review, Sentencing, Crimes Act, Bail, Drugs, Summary Offences, Firearms and Weapons, Children, Mental Health and Investigation. There are a few commentary only topic areas – they being Proceedings before Magistrates, Criminal Responsibility and Trial Procedure. There is also a solid commentary only introduction to sentencing law behind the start of the sentencing material. A subscription to Criminal Law News (Crim LN) is included with a subscription to Criminal Practice and Procedure NSW, and includes digests of recent cases and information about legislative developments to keep practitioners up to date with the latest happenings in NSW criminal law.