Provides a guide to police and defence investigation, with disclosure in criminal cases. This edition takes into account developments and changes in sentencing, offences and to disclosure. The majority of changes have been introduced by the Criminal Justice Act 2003. It aims to ensure that you are aware of the changes in the area.

"This is an extremely thorough and impressive text that will, without doubt, assist in ensuring that a defence is actively pursued and achieved by the practitioner." - "The Legal Executive Journal" (about the 2nd Edition). "Active Defence" provides a thorough and comprehensive guide to police and defence investigation as well as disclosure in criminal cases. This fully updated edition takes into account developments and changes in sentencing, new offences and to disclosure. The majority of changes have been introduced by the Criminal Justice Act 2003. Part 5 of the Act makes provision for: a new objective duty of disclosure on the prosecution with one single test; a new Code of Practice on police interviewing of defence witnesses; duty on the defence to provide details of defence witnesses and experts instructed; obligations on the defence to update the defence case statement; and, sanctions for certain non-disclosure by the defence. This latest edition of "Active Defence" ensures that you are aware of the changes in the area, and that you are equipped with a highly useful and reliable guide to practice.

Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. The CPIA in practice: the experience of the legal profession and the need for active defence, 2. The framework of investigation: from offence to evidence, 3. Process corruption: the threat to the effectiveness and integrity of police investigation, 4. The path of forensic scientific investigation: theory and practice, 5. Retracting the police investigation: how it should be recorded, 6. The police duty to reveal information to the prosecutor, 7. Disclosure to the defence: the unfolding picture, 8. The analysis of disclosed material, 9. Active defence in the police station, 10. Primary disclosure: the prosecutor's duty to disclose unused material to the defence, 11. Making defence disclosure, 12. Prosecution secondary disclosure, 13. Problematic disclosure: material subject to particular restrictions, 14. Further defence investigations, Appendices, Index.