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Review of the
Criminal Courts of England and Wales


by
The Right Honourable Lord Justice Auld

September 2001


CONTENTS

Foreword

Scope of the Review

General approach

Conduct of the Review

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Chapter 2 — Summary and Recommendations

Chapter 3 — The criminal courts and their management

Chapter 4 — Magistrates

Chapter 5 — Juries

Chapter 6 — The judiciary

Chapter 7 — A unified Criminal Court

Chapter 8 — The criminal justice system

Chapter 9 — Decriminalisation and alternatives to conventional trial

Chapter 10 — Preparing for trial

Chapter 11 — The trial: procedures and evidence

Chapter 12 — Appeals

Appendices

List of contributors - individuals

List of contributors - organisations

Information and research projects from other jurisdictions

Current research projects — England and Wales

The current workload of the criminal courts

Bibliography for research paper What can the English legal system learn from research published up to 2000?


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