Charging Standards

• Collates all the new Crown Prosecution Service charging standards in one portable standalone volume
• Includes other relevant Crown Prosection Service policy documents in relation to offences such as race and religous crime, rape and offensive weapons
• Fully cross-referenced throughout to: Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2005, Archbold's 2005 and Wilkinson's Road Traffic Offences
• Offers a comprehensive index and tables, providing a clear structure for the Standards, making them easier for practitioners to navigate

Readership: Primary: Defence and prosection criminal barristers and solicitors; judges and justices clerks. Secondary: Police and Duty Solicitors

Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Table of Statutory Instruments
PART 1: The Decision to Prosecute and Charging
Chapter 1: The Code for Crown Prosecutors
Chapter 2: The Director's Guidance on Charging
PART 2: Crown Prosecution Service Charging Standards
Chapter 3: Offences Against the Person, incorporating the Charging Standard
Chapter 4: Theft Acts, incorporating the Charging Standard
Chapter 5: Public Order Offenes, incorporating the Charging Standard
Chapter 6: Public Justice Offences, incorporating the Charging Standard
Chapter 7: Drug Offences, incorporating the Charging Standard
Chapter 8: Driving offences, incorporating the Charging Standard
PART 3: Crown Prosecution Service Guidance and Policy Documents
Chapter 9: Guidance on Prosecuting Cases of Domestic Violence
Chapter 10: Policy for Prosecuting Cases of Rape
Chapter 11: Guidance on Prosecuting Cases of Racist and Religious Crime
Index