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Lexis^®^PSL Crime: a single source of criminal procedure and offences.

Instant and transportable access. Supporting criminal practitiones in all areas affecting their clients.

Lexis®PSL Crime provides a comprehensive and immediate response for this fast-paced environment – online access, updated daily and available wherever you are.

Checklists pull together all the resources that are needed in practice, improving client care, case preparation and risk management for lawyers and companies. In addition Lexis®PSL Crime provides a portal into the Lexis®Library content, creating a more comprehensive solution.
 
Lexis®PSL Crime offers practical guidance, practice notes, precedents and drafting notes, cases and current awareness. It is a full service solution for criminal lawyers, to help plan strategy from the moment you get the call until the case goes through court.

√ Get the results you need, fast. Instant guidance, with consolidated summaries and intuitive navigation tools built around your daily activities.

√ Master new areas quickly. Insights that you can immediately use, from experienced practitioners, with over 30 years PQE.

√ There when you need it. Whether you’re in court, on the road or at the station.


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Direct links to the relevant section of the underlying authority and commentary 

  • Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2012
  • Anthony and Berryman’s Magistrates’ Court Guide 2012
  • Stone’s Justices’ Manual 2011
  • All England Law Reports (Crime)
  • Criminal Law and Justice Weekly (formerly Justice of the Peace)
  • Justice of the Peace Law Reports
  • Police and Criminal Evidence Act Cases
  • UK Parliament Acts (Crime)
  • UK Parliament SIs (Crime)
  • Crown Prosecution Service Code for Prosecutors and Police Charging Standards
  • The Police Journal
  • Ministry of Justice
  • Criminal Procedure Rules 2012

Working in partnership with leading firms

We take direction from our Consulting Editorial Board to ensure we consistently deliver relevant practical guidance so that you have the confidence to make more informed decisions, based on sound, practical advice.

Meet the Crime team who have developed Lexis®PSL Crime.

Choose from a comprehensive range of topics

 Arrest and search

  • Arrest and detention
  • Searches and samples
  • Powers of the investigator
  • Questioning

Bail

  • Bail

Magistrates' court proceedings

  • Decision to prosecute
  • Commencing proceedings
  • Summary trial

Crown Court procedure

  • Trial on indictment
  • Criminal Procedure Rules
  • Abuse of process

Evidence

  • Witnesses
  • Bad character and hearsay
  • Admissibility and exclusion of evidence
  • Inferences from silence
  • Disclosure
  • Identification
  • Perjury

Criminal liability

  • State of mind
  • Criminal conduct
  • Incomplete offences
  • Defences

Sentence

  • Mitigation
  • Sentencing powers
  • Civil and financial penalties and ancillary orders

Appeal or judicial review

  • Appeal
  • Judicial review

Confiscation, restraint and asset seizure

  • Confiscation
  • Cash seizure and forfeiture
  • Restraint

Offences against the person and public order

  • Homicide
  • Offences against the person
  • Firearms and weapons offences
  • Public order offences

Sexual offences

  • Sexual offences

Theft, fraud and property offences

  • Theft offences
  • Fraud offences
  • Property offences
  • Forgery
  • Olympic offences 2012

Road traffic offences

  • Drink driving
  • Driving offences triable on indictment
  • Driving offences summary only
  • Evidence in driving offences
  • Disqualification and endorsement

Drug offences

  • Possession, production and supply of drugs

Youth justice

  • Young offenders

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Brand new - Monthly round up

Listen to the latest in this year’s series of short podcasts pinpointing some of the key developments in criminal law. At the end of each month, Anne-Marie Lynch, Solicitor in the Lexis®PSL Crime team, will be reviewing some of the key changes to cases and legislation from across that month. 

This month’s topics include some of the developments on sentencing, confiscation and new offences.

Click here to listen to the podcast.

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