"Both of these
eminent works
are needed more
than ever before
as trusted guides
through the
untamed jungle of
criminal law"
Archbold: Criminal Pleading, Evidence & Practice 2023
- Editor: Judge Mark Lucraft KC
- Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell
- ISBN: 9780414111080
- RRP: £415
Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2023
- Editors: David Ormerod CBE KC (Hon) & David Perry KC
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- ISBN: 9780192870292
- RRP: £395
What is really illuminating about reading the latest editions of both Archbold and Blackstone’s Criminal Practice is how they illustrate the significant changes made to the criminal law in the last 12 months.
After all, for those who work in the area of law which probably goes through the most dynamic of changes, year in, year out, and with the pure volume of influential routes by which it may be altered—case law, statute and, perhaps most significantly, criminal procedure rules—both of these well-established publications have an onerous duty to keep us up-to-date.
Knee-jerk reactions
One of the criticisms of those who have to interpret the criminal law,
