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Anthony and Berryman's Magistrates' Court Guide 2025
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Why should you buy Anthony and Berryman's Magistrates' Court Guide 2025
The updated edition of this title remains the essential publication that no court practitioner can afford to be without. It includes straightforward coverage of new case law, current court procedures, criminal offences, sentencing and more to ensure you have a complete picture of the law. Practical commentary and excellent value for money puts this title ahead of the competition as the single most important guide to the activities of the Magistrates' Court.
The 2025 edition includes the following updates:
- The Online Safety Act 2023
- The Criminal Procedure Rules and The Criminal Practice Directions 2023
- The Dangerous Dogs (Designated Types) (England and Wales) Order 2023
- The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Requisite and Minimum Custodial Periods) Order 2024
- New sections on Public Order to cover processions, assemblies and protests
- R v Casserley - Malicious communications and art 10
- Re: Attorney General's Reference on a point of law (No 1 of 2023) - Defence under s 5(2)(a) of the CDA - meaning of 'circumstances' - merits, urgency and importance of the subject of the protest are not included - only the circumstances of the damage were relevant and they did not include the political or philosophical beliefs of the perpetrator
- Coercive/controlling behaviour - Addition of the offence of intentional strangulation or suffocation and sentencing guidance on the offence handed down in R v Alfie Cook
- R (DPP) v Manchester City Magistrates' Court - A judge had been right to conduct a fact-sensitive assessment of the proportionality of convicting defendants accused of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause a person harassment, alarm or distress, contrary to the Public Order Act 1986 s 4A, where they had relied on the reasonable conduct defence under s 4A(3)(b)
