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Book reviews: Archbold & Blackstone's 2023

16 June 2023 / John Cooper KC
Issue: 8029 / Categories: Features , Criminal , Procedure & practice
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"Both of these eminent works are needed more than ever before as trusted guides through the untamed jungle of criminal law"

Archbold: Criminal Pleading, Evidence & Practice 2023

  • Editor: Judge Mark Lucraft KC
  • Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell
  • ISBN: 9780414111080
  • RRP: £415

Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2023

  • Editors: David Ormerod CBE KC (Hon) & David Perry KC
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 9780192870292
  • RRP: £395

What is really illuminating about reading the latest editions of both Archbold and Blackstone’s Criminal Practice is how they illustrate the significant changes made to the criminal law in the last 12 months.

After all, for those who work in the area of law which probably goes through the most dynamic of changes, year in, year out, and with the pure volume of influential routes by which it may be altered—case law, statute and, perhaps most significantly, criminal procedure rules—both of these well-established publications have an onerous duty to keep us up-to-date.

Knee-jerk reactions

One of the

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