Module Descriptors
ADVANCED CRIMINAL PRACTICE
LAWS70745
Key Facts
Health, Education, Policing and Sciences
Level 7
1 credits
Contact
Leader: Anna Garland
Email: Anna.Garland@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities:
Independent Study Hours:
Total Learning Hours:
Pattern of Delivery
- Occurrence A, Stoke Campus, PG Semester 2
Sites
- Stoke Campus
Assessment
- EXAMINATION - OPEN BOOK EXAMINATION IN EXAMINATION CONDITIONS weighted at 100%
Module Details
Module Learning Strategies
Advanced Criminal Practice is taught within 9 x one hour lecture sessions and 9 x two hour workshop sessions with additional self-study. Additionally, for students following a blended-learning mode of delivery there will be on-line activities.
Module Additional Assessment Details
Assessed with one 3 hour written assessment with a formative assessment with one to one feedback.
Module Resources
Lecture and Workshop materials. Blackboard. On-line resources.
Module Texts
OUP Criminal Litigation Handbook (annually updated)
Module Special Admissions Requirements
None
Module Indicative Content
CASE ANALYSIS
1. elements of selected criminal offences and defences
2. propositions of fact
3. admissibility and relevance of evidence
4. use of Counsel
5. compliance with Criminal Procedure Rules, court's case management responsibilities
COURSES OF ACTION AND CRIMINAL LITIGATION FUNDING
1. case funding
2. courses of action, costs, benefits and risks
3. court processes
YOUTH JUSTICE
1. aims of the youth justice system
2. terminology of youth justice and roles of the youth justice organisations.
3. Criminal Procedure Rules,
4. young offender's legal rights in police detention, role of appropriate adult ,duties of police station representative
5. role of the police and CPS in diversion procedures
6. issues of jurisdiction including issues of bail
7. trial courts, sentencing powers, `dangerous' offender provisions.
POLICE STATION REPRESENTATION
1. police representative
2. legal framework
3. evidential inferences from silence
4. options available to the police/CPS
ROAD TRAFFIC LAW
1. key elements
2. practice and procedure
3. plea in mitigation
4. trial courts, sentencing powers
EVIDENCE AND ADVOCACY
1. admission of bad character / hearsay evidence
2. abuse of process application / examining in chief/cross-examining
3. bad character application
4. application to admit hearsay evidence
5. abuse of process application
6. examine-in-chief/cross-examine a witness
1. elements of selected criminal offences and defences
2. propositions of fact
3. admissibility and relevance of evidence
4. use of Counsel
5. compliance with Criminal Procedure Rules, court's case management responsibilities
COURSES OF ACTION AND CRIMINAL LITIGATION FUNDING
1. case funding
2. courses of action, costs, benefits and risks
3. court processes
YOUTH JUSTICE
1. aims of the youth justice system
2. terminology of youth justice and roles of the youth justice organisations.
3. Criminal Procedure Rules,
4. young offender's legal rights in police detention, role of appropriate adult ,duties of police station representative
5. role of the police and CPS in diversion procedures
6. issues of jurisdiction including issues of bail
7. trial courts, sentencing powers, `dangerous' offender provisions.
POLICE STATION REPRESENTATION
1. police representative
2. legal framework
3. evidential inferences from silence
4. options available to the police/CPS
ROAD TRAFFIC LAW
1. key elements
2. practice and procedure
3. plea in mitigation
4. trial courts, sentencing powers
EVIDENCE AND ADVOCACY
1. admission of bad character / hearsay evidence
2. abuse of process application / examining in chief/cross-examining
3. bad character application
4. application to admit hearsay evidence
5. abuse of process application
6. examine-in-chief/cross-examine a witness
Web Descriptor
This elective module builds upon students’ knowledge of Criminal Litigation from the core Litigation module. There is further study of advanced aspects of the laws of evidence as they relate to criminal cases. New topics of study focus on areas of criminal practice that a trainee solicitor or paralegal is likely to encounter in the workplace. The Youth Justice system is studied, with a focus on how children and young people may be diverted from the criminal justice system, and the approaches which are taken to them in court. Another new field of practice is sentencing in road traffic offences. Learning activities support students to develop the skills required to advise clients and to prepare and present criminal cases effectively.