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Magistrates, Criminal Trials, the Human Rights Act and the ECHR
A historical document. This course states the law as it stood in early 2002 — before, among much else, A v Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Legal Services Act, and two decades of Strasbourg and domestic jurisprudence. It is republished as an artefact of early online legal education, not as current training. Its hyperlinks are preserved as written in 2002; most no longer resolve.
In 2002 every magistrate in England and Wales had just been trained for the commencement of the Human Rights Act. This course was written as the follow-on: 68 short units — chunks, as the clickntrain team called them — walking the criminal work of the bench through Articles 5 and 6, from arrest warrants to bail, fair trial, the presumption of innocence and binding over, with 20 self-test questions along the way. It was delivered over dial-up, behind a £175 licence, to a market that was not yet ready. It is republished here as it stood.
Contents
- Part A Introduction and the Human Rights Act 199824 chunks
- Part B Arrest and Detention6 chunks
- Part C Continuing Detention and Appearance After Charge2 chunks
- Part D Bail12 chunks
- Part E Fair Trials under the ECHR9 chunks
- Part F The Rights of the Defence4 chunks
- Part G Presumption of Innocence4 chunks
- Part H Criminal Charges and Other Rights7 chunks
Source: the full course as Markdown, recovered from the company’s Access database (db1.mdb, table part_b1).